Search results for "Ossian"
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Blackwood's Magazine - "Nodier's Promenade"
2013
We have translated and annotated an extended review from "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" reporting on the publication, in English translation, of "Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d'Écosse" by Charles Nodier ("Promenade from Dieppe to the Mountains of Scotland", Edinburg, Blackwood, London, Cadell, 1822). The reference of the original article is as follows: "Nodier's Promenade", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", march 1822, vol. XI (January - June 1822).
Charles Nodier, Trilogie écossaise
2013
Charles Nodier’s summer ambulations through Scotland in 1821 were to spawn a genre: the romantic travelogue. The reader is invited on a journey through age-old legends and oneiric cartography, through the fogs of ancient Caledonia and modern Scotland, and into the land of goblins and fairies.
Introduction. L'Écosse de Charles Nodier, un Eldorado romantique
2013
International audience
Ossian, Omero e il bardo morlacco. Su Giulio Bajamonti e la scoperta degli antichi slavi
2010
The essay "Il morlacchismo di Omero" (1797), written in Italian by Giulio Bajamonti, is the first contribution to the romantic Croatian literature. At the light of Vico’s "Scienza nuova" (1744), Bajamonti introduces Homer’s paradigm to demonstrate that the way of life of the Vlach (i.e. Morlack), who inhabited the interior of Dalmatia, shows close analogies with the heroes of the Iliad. Like Homer and the Highland bards of the Ossian’s poems (Macpherson), the Vlach sings the ancient epic verses accompanied by a gusle. Following this paradigm Bajamonti recognizes in the Vlach’s poetry the authentic national spirit of the South Slavic people. The article analyses: the passage from the exotic …
Externalism, inclusion, and knowledge of content
2003
En este trabajo abordo la cuestión de si el autoconocimiento es compatible con una individuación externista del contenido mental. En contra de algunas posiciones, considero el autoconocimiento como un logro cognitivo genuino. Aunque no es incorregible ni infalible, el autoconocimiento es directo (no inferencial), a priori (no basado en la investigación empírica), y dotado de especial autoridad y presunción de verdad. El problema consiste en saber si el autoconocimiento, así entendido, es compatible con el externismo. Mi respuesta será afirmativa. Defenderé esta clase de compatibilismo frente a distintas objeciones, sobre todo aquellas que se basan en la posibilidad de que un individuo sea s…