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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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Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry [PDF]

, 2021
Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century.
Dennis Wise
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Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival

, 2021
Although Poul Anderson is best known for his prose, he dabbled in poetry all his life, and his historical interests led him to become a major—if unacknowledged—contributor to the twentieth-century alliterative revival. This revival, most often associated
Dennis Wise
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English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History [PDF]

, 2016
English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth
Eric Weiskott
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The Fall of Arthur and The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún : A Metrical Review of Three Modern English Alliterative Poems [PDF]

, 2015
J.R.R. Tolkien produced a considerable body of poetry in which he used the traditional alliterative metre of Old Norse and Old English to write modern English verse.
Nelson Goering
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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse

, 2017
The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some
Ian Cornelius
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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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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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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
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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Alliterative metre and Medieval English literary history

, 2018
The years 2016 and 2017 have respectively witnessed the publication of two stimulating Cambridge University Press monographs on medieval English literary history: Eric Weiskott’s English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016 ...
Pascual, Rafael J.
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