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Old Russ­ian birch­bark let­ters: a prag­mat­ic approach
This study is devot­ed to a cor­pus of Old Russ­ian let­ters, writ­ten on pieces of birch­bark. These unique texts from Nov­gorod and sur­round­ings give us an excep­tion­al impres­sion of every­day life in medieval Russ­ian soci­ety. In this study, the birch­bark let­ters are addressed from a prag­mat­ic angle. Lin­guis­tic para­me­ters are iden­ti­fied that shed light on the degree to which lit­er­a­cy had gained ground in com­mu­nica­tive process­es. It is demon­strat­ed that the birch­bark let­ters occu­py an inter­me­di­ate posi­tion between oral­i­ty and lit­er­a­cy. On the one hand, oral habits of com­mu­ni­ca­tion per­sist­ed, as reflect­ed in how the birch­bark let­ters are phrased; on the oth­er hand, lit­er­ate modes of expres­sion emerged, as seen in the devel­op­ment of nor­ma­tive con­ven­tions and lit­er­ate for­mu­lae.
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Fine lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s sci­en­tif­ic art
The first com­pre­hen­sive, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary account­ing of Nabokov’s sci­en­tif­ic work, its sig­nif­i­cance in his artistry, and his con­tri­bu­tion to evo­lu­tion­ary the­o­ry
This land­mark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov’s long-neglect­ed con­tri­bu­tions as a sci­en­tist. Although his lit­er­ary achieve­ments are renowned, until recent­ly his sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies were ignored or dis­missed by many. Nabokov cre­at­ed well over 1,000 tech­ni­cal illus­tra­tions of the anatom­i­cal struc­tures of but­ter­flies, seek­ing to under­stand the evo­lu­tion­ary diver­si­ty of small but­ter­flies called Blues. But only late­ly have sci­en­tists con­firmed his metic­u­lous research and vin­di­cat­ed his sur­pris­ing hypothe­ses.
This vol­ume repro­duces 154 of Nabokov’s draw­ings, few of which have ever been seen in pub­lic, and presents essays by ten lead­ing sci­en­tists and Nabokov spe­cial­ists. The con­trib­u­tors under­score the sig­nif­i­cance of Nabokov’s draw­ings as sci­en­tif­ic doc­u­ments, eval­u­ate his vision­ary con­tri­bu­tions to evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy and sys­tem­at­ics, and offer insights into his unique artis­tic per­cep­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty.
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