Kipchak Turkic lexical traces of Ottoman heritage in Rumanian and Balkan language

This work expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable.

Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in 18th-century England.

These fables, the author says, reveal the 18th-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference - the woman and the native or non-European.