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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Centrally developed English lesson plans provide structure and ensure curriculum coverage, yet they can constrain preservice teachers' creativity, responsiveness, and capacity to engage students meaningfully. Although this tension is well documented, there is limited practical guidance for teacher educators in University Teacher Preparation ...
Deb Brosseuk
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Analyzing Roleplaying Games as Pedagogical Tools for Disrupting Literary Whiteness
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.[Left] The sailors see in the distance a ghostly ship, scene from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T. Coleridge, published by Harper und Brothers, New York, 1876 (wood engraving). [Right] Rime of the Modern Mariner, speculative reimagining of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by S.T.
Karis Jones +3 more
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Grammatical and stylistic particularities in Livy’s work [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 In this article we have conducted a number of grammatical and stylistic analyses on representative fragments from the monumental work of Livy.
Ana-Maria POPESCU POPA
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Background In the United Kingdom, cleft care is provided across 14 regional NHS cleft units. Although all units assess speech at age 3, no speech assessments have been designed specifically for 3‐year‐old children with cleft palate ± cleft lip (CP ± L).
Beth Fitzpatrick +4 more
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Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2013 This work represents an analysis of Cicero's speech Oratio in Catilinam Prima on two levels: phonostylistic and lexicostylistic with the goal to represent expressive voice function and figures of speech on phonostylistic level and to represent lexic ...
Sanja Merzić
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with ...
Peter Sutton
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 487-512, July 2026.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Talking about analysing our research material: Let's dig into data
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract Between the collection of empirical material and the production of final project outputs lies a mysterious and murky process of ‘getting to know’ the piles of research material. This introduction to the Special Section, ‘Digging into data: Learning together from analysis experiences’, reflects on how human geographers talk about this process ...
Lauren Wagner, Alan Latham
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