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

open access: yesHealth 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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Some corrections to the notation of verse structure in two recent editions of Middle English alliterative poems

open access: yesFilologia 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?

open access: yesStudia 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
doaj   +1 more source

Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon

open access: yesGlossa
This article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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“Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor”: Revisiting Brunanburi’s Beasts-of Battle Topos (57-65ª) in Translation

open access: yesOdisea, 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
doaj   +1 more source

‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry

open access: yesManuscript and Text Cultures
Poetry in early Germanic vernaculars exhibits variations on a metrical form predicated on a pattern of alliterating stressed syllables linking two halves of a line (in contrast to syllabic metres in which scansion requires a fixed number of syllables ...
James Parkhouse
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of the Alfredian verse prefaces and epilogues

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
This study takes into account the verse prefaces and epilogues associated with the translations of the Alfredian age, approaching them from a metrical standpoint.
CLAUDIO CATALDI
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Analyzing Roleplaying Games as Pedagogical Tools for Disrupting Literary Whiteness

open access: yesReading 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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