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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
GlossaThis 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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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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J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s Homecoming and Modern Alliterative Metre
, 2021 J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son” is a modern English alliterative verse drama written in the metre of Old English poetry and demonstrating his interest in versification and his skill in writing original alliterative verse ...
Smol, Anna, Foster, Rebecca
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The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry
Manuscript and Text CulturesPoetry 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
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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‘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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Studia Metrica et PoeticaThis 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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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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A Study of the Alfredian verse prefaces and epilogues
Filologia GermanicaThis 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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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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