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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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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The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry

Manuscript 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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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Rhyme in dróttkvætt, from Old Germanic Inheritance to Contemporary Poetic Ecology III: The Old Norse Poetic Ecology

Studia Metrica et Poetica
This paper is the third in a three-part series that develops a model for the background of rhyme in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as a formalization of the same form of rhyme found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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A Study of the Alfredian verse prefaces and epilogues

Filologia 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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Everyday governance on the Somalia‐Kenya border: Flourishing without state support

Development Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2025.
Abstract Motivation How do people living in an insecure borderland beset by civil war and insurgency solve social problems and improve life when they are targeted by counterinsurgency forces, taxed by insurgents, and their villages are too insecure to get state or NGO services?
Patta Scott‐Villiers
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SPEAKING YOUR MIND: THE TRANSLATION OF ORALITY IN MARLEN HAUSHOFER'S PROSE

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 493-507, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article considers how features of spoken language in three of Marlen Haushofer's works, Die Tapetentür (1957), Die Wand (1963) and Die Mansarde (1969), have been translated into English. A close reading of Haushofer's prose demonstrates how she relies on carefully constructed cadences of thought to reach an intermediate point between ...
Isabel Parkinson
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010

History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.
ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1402-1412, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Northern Vietnam, in particular the regions along the international border, is home to a rich diversity of language communities. Important research opportunities have presented themselves in the Tai‐speaking communities in rural districts near Laos with an emphasis on the development and preservation of the Tai languages.
Thi‐Nham Le, Norbert Francis
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