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The present paper offers an edited, critical transcription of an early, relevant text on haṭhayoga. The transcription is based on three different recenssions fom North and South India. One purpose is to overcome difficulties in the reading of the text, due to the discrepancies among different editions. It also seeks to foster further academic work (both philological and exegetical) from different scholars on this text as well as on the broader textual tradition of haṭhayoga. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to conduct a reflection on the new reality that has occurred in the context of the present discipline of the Classical Tradition: the emergence of Reception Studies, in order to rereading Greek and Latin Classics over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to study the primal relationship between music and epic poetry, whose traces are found in Homer. On one hand, such undertaking will be done under the light of ancient doctrines about musical teaching and its ethical effects. On the other, the study will also consider the way in wich moral readings of this kind, based on the Achilles at the lyre passage from the Iliad, IX, 186-189, were exploited by Statius in his Achilleid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the positions of Xavier Abril, Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, and José María Arguedas in the context of the discussions of the avant-garde, indigenismo and socialism that sought the renewal of the Peruvian imaginary between 1925 and 1940. The framework of the analysis intends to capture the complexity of the influences of José Carlos Marátegui's discourse in the debate, abandoning the contrast of the "Andean" and "West" categories and proposing a reading that emphasizes three other premises: authenticity, territoriality and modernity. In this sense, this work examines the relationship between Abril and Westphalen (1930-34), showing their image of Lima as a primitive space and a cultural wasteland in contrast to Europe and studying, among other texts, an unpublished manifesto. This paper then addresses the intellectual relationship between Westphalen and Arguedas at the end of the 1930s, showing how their representation of Lima as a hostile place was complemented by the proposal of an indigenous subject capable of the artistic modernity. This mapping of Lima's cultural scene of the time will explain how, according to these intellectuals, being primitive or modern depended on the authenticity of the artistic/intellectual pursuit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the evolving profile of the class of scribes or munshīs who emerged during the phase of consolidation of Mughal rule in northern India, as Mughal power waned in the course of the eighteenth century. It argues that while the social and political base of this class was expanded by opportunities provided by the empire, these munshīs in turn sought to develop their own understanding of events both past and present. In the late seventeenth century, they began to generate their own templates of history writing together with other forms of belles-lettres. In the first half of the eighteenth century, their power seemed to be on the increase as many made the transition to becoming significant political actors themselves. However, they were unable to consolidate their position in the latter decades of the century, when they emerged instead as critics of the new forms that Mughal power was taking. The essay is based on a reading of texts produced by a number of these authors, largely in Persian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is focused on some of J. L. Borges' short stories as starting points for historiographical metafiction. The article also analyses the influence of Borges' work on novels written by Salman Rushdie as well as Borges' influence on Romanian postmodernism and upon authors like Ştefan Agopian and Mircea Cărtărescu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Graphic Press, which is credited as being the first publisher in Canada specializing in books that were written principally by Canadian authors. Graphic Press was founded in 1924 by Henry C. Miller. Particular attention is paid to the Canadian author Alex Philip. His works include "The Crimson West," "The Painted Cliff," and "Whispering Leaves." The author contends that Philip's works are interesting due to their portrayals of the Canadian West; however, they are also seen by the author as containing racist and sexist language. The article also discusses the adaptations of these novels into motion pictures and the distinctive bindings and illustrations of these books.