‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena

This article looks first at the contemporary and historical, formal and semantic background of the English verb commit and its various uses in the domain of artistic production. The second part of the article looks at the representations of the notion of ‘commitment’ in present-day French, German an...

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Main Author: Henry DANIELS
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Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2016-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5095
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‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
E-REA
etymology
commitment
contemplative and conative art
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Antiquity
lexicology
title ‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
title_full ‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
title_fullStr ‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
title_full_unstemmed ‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
title_short ‘Promising’? ‘Hiring’? ‘Coloring’? ‘Pawning’? Reflections on the notion of artistic ‘commitment’ in the Indo-European arena
title_sort promising hiring coloring pawning reflections on the notion of artistic commitment in the indo european arena
topic etymology
commitment
contemplative and conative art
Indo-European
Antiquity
lexicology
url https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5095
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