... to a narrative with an unusual temporal structure, and to the ability to engage imaginatively with the narrative's time, to produce an argument that more usual structures are not necessary to time. Bakhtin M Church M Grosz E Mendilow A A Meyerhoff H Morson G S Ricoeur P Sternberg μ Deleuze G Kristeva J...

... examines historical reconstruction and literary structures of rabbinic texts using the Leviticus Rabbah as an example. It explains that Leviticus Rabbah is a commentary on the Book of Leviticus which now forms part of Midrash Rabbah. It proposes ten theses about the special problems which the literary...

... aspects of the Ugaritic‐Hebrew parallels: first, the points of resemblance between the two corpora in the aesthetics of poetic structure and imagery; and, second, the evolution visible in the Hebrew Bible in the areas of literary genre, subject matter, and life setting of individual poems or collections...

... (1986, 262–3) Ballinknockane (Mt Brandon) Simple incised cross-slab, dry-stone structures of various dates ? c.800 Harbison argues pilgrimage developed c.800 Harbison (1991, 80) Ballintaggart Enclosure, early cross-inscribed oghams with 〉〈OI...

..., or in chronological terms from the Middle Archaic to Middle Formative. The factors that lead to complexity include important changes in social structure and economic systems, but also probable movements and concentrations of populations, against a linguistic background taken into account despite the obvious...

... dragon, interrogation of the black demon, heavenly apparitions, beheading by Malchus, burial, and posthumous miracles. It then discusses the structure and the content of the legend, highlighting its dichotomies: private–public, country–city, enclosure–spectacle, Christian–pagan, wholeness–fragmentation...

...This book explores the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines that we now...

... Norse. Taken together, these diverse sources of data indicate a notable continuity in the internal rhythmic structure of words in these languages. Specifically, an enduring role is played by the bimoraic trochee, a prosodic unit which serves as the basis for the poetic phenomenon...

.... This introductory chapter provides the theoretical linguistic background of the book, introducing the prosodic hierarchy before examining those prosodic units most relevant to words and their internal structure. Special attention is given to the bimoraic trochee and issues relevant...

... about individual castaways and their public presentation of self. DeNora Tia interviews DID interviews qualitative qualitative interviews scripted interviews contrast structure Goffman Erving public self relational analysis Smith Dorothy narrative self academic castaways castaways...

...This chapter explores the relationship formed between the social structure of India and its contemporary patterns. It tries to show how this relates to the theories of social cleavage alignment, and examines change in the cleavage structure of party competition. The chapter also discusses how...

...Periphrasis has a striking role in the Australian (non-Pama-Nyungan) language Dalabon, where it helps to maintain the paradigm structure, and at the same time reshapes the paradigm by adding new categories. The key area concerns divalent prefixal marking in verbs, which has been used as evidence...

... information structure Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, belongs to the Nenets sub-branch of the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language family. The language is spoken in the Arctic part of European Russia and northwestern Siberia, between the Kanin Peninsula in the west and the delta...

...Periphrastic constructions in related and well-studied languages such as English, German, and French exhibit significant diversity in their syntactic structure. In English the main verb combines with its complements first, whereas in German the main verb combines with the auxiliary first. French...

... structure stem alternation suppletion heteroclisis lexical splits typology When examining periphrasis we naturally analyse the status of the contributing elements and the interplay of syntactic and morphological factors. But if periphrastic forms are part of paradigms, we should also ask how...

...This chapter examines differences in the families of ethnic minority and majority youth in four European countries (England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden). The focus is on the degree to which the father is absent, as indicated by family structure and the strength of the father–child tie...

...This chapter examines the history of Great Britain, the British Commonwealth, and the end of the British Empire in the twentieth century, suggesting that the twentieth century ended in Britain as it began, with the constitutional structure of the United Kingdom a contested and vital subject...

... and musicology. For science, music is simply a complex pattern of sound or the experience of structured sound. For musicology and ethnomusicology, music cannot be separated from the cultural contexts in which they are embedded. This chapter proposes a broad operational definition of music which can be acceptable...

... organizations, occasional (national) players, (national) traditionalists, EU players, and multilevel players. The results confirm the implications of the ‘capacity’ hypothesis: in general, the changes in the institutional opportunity structure have not led to a major reshuffling of the domestic power structure...

...The class structure provides an important context for the study of social mobility. The evolution of the class structure is the all-important factor determining individuals’ changing experience of mobility, as expressed in absolute rates. The total mobility rate shows long-term stability...