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Enablers and Barriers to Alternative Care: Perspectives of Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Service Providers in Kerala. [PDF]

Health Expect
ABSTRACT Background Decline of intergenerational co‐residence, risk of functional and emotional deprivations in old age, and the diminishing capacity of families to care in‐person for their older parents have intensified the demand for formal care provisions among left‐behind older adults in migrant households of Kerala.
Mohan A, Jothikaran TAJ, Ashok L.
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‘Thare is na leid on life of lordship hym like’: linguistic means of depicting king arthur in the poem Golagros and Gawain

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020
It has recently been marked that the figure of king Arthur in Scottish literature is rather controversial: on the one hand, Arthur is a noble and valiant knight; on the other hand, he is an arrogant invader whose aim is to conquer the whole world.
A. G. Stoliarova
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A New Look at Old English Metrics

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1989
In this paper I propose a scansion of Old English alliterative poetry in terms of a binary branching template. The analysis builds on work by Halle and Keyser (1971) and Maling (1971), but has two advantages over these analyses: (a) it provides a natural
Huettner, Alison K.
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Linking Letters: Translating Ancient History into Medieval Romance [PDF]

, 2007
In his prologue to the late fourteenth-century romance, the Destruction of Troy, John Clerk of Whalley negotiates between his roles as translator, historian and alliterative poet to introduce his account of the fall of Troy for medieval English readers ...
Alex Mueller
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Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration [PDF]

, 2014
The paper examines the transmission of alliteration in Estonian and Russian translated verse. The main focus is on the translation of alliterative epic, on the one hand, and more recent literary alliteration, on the other hand.
Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Lotman, Mihhail
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Formulas and Vocabulary of Ritual Speech in Old English Heroic Epic (Based on Direct Speech in the Poem Beowulf)

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2016
The paper deals with the linguistic and poetic analysis of the formula 'X maþelode' ('someone said') in comparison to other ways of introducing direct speech in the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf.
Natalya Yu. Gvozdetskaya
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'Throttle College'? Ted Hughes's Cambridge Poetry [PDF]

, 2015
Ted Hughes often characterised his time at Cambridge as uninspiring and unproductive. Yet this article is the first scholarly study to examine the surviving work that Hughes produced while he was a student.
Reddick, Yvonne
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2019
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Some corrections to the notation of verse structure in two recent editions of Middle English alliterative poems

Filologia Germanica
In Germanic alliterative verse the fundamental unit of meter and rhythm is the half-line. Editions of older Germanic alliterative poems now usually record this feature in their typographic design: the poetry is lineated and coordinate half-lines are ...
IAN CORNELIUS
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“Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor”: Revisiting Brunanburi’s Beasts-of Battle Topos (57-65ª) in Translation

Odisea, 2017
Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor: Una revisión del tema de las Bestias de la Guerra (57-65h) en las traducciones de la Batalla de Brunanburi. La entrada correspondiente al año 937 de la Crónica Anglosajona narra los hechos que tuvieron lugar en ...
Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso
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