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The verse forms of the Old English “metrical” charms
Filologia GermanicaThis essay takes into account the metre of the so-called metrical charms, arguing that these charms are characterised by a number of prosodic elements such as free alliterative verses, recurring repetition and some occasional rhyme.
Claudio Cataldi
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THE ‘I’ OF SHAME AND RAGE: CONFESSION AND RUMINATION AT EITHER END OF A MILLENNIUM
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 394-411, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article brings together two texts that differ in numerous respects: the long poem farbe komma dunkel by Levin Westermann (2021) and a devotional text often known as the Bamberg Creed and Confession (Bamberger Glaube und Beichte), transmitted in a twelfth‐century manuscript.
Sarah Bowden +2 more
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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Artur Alliksaare alliteratiivsed arhetüübid
Keel ja KirjandusThe article explores the free-verse poetics of Artur Alliksaar (1923–1966), Estonia’s foremost poet of language. Alliksaar faced poverty and repression under the Soviet regime, making it challenging to publish his work.
Arne Merilai
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The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 91-122, February 2025.This paper represents a sociological approach to autism spectrum disorder that critiques the terms neurodiverse and it obverse, neurotypical, because they promote a cognitive approach that mystifies what is actual and real about human activity in everyday life.
Douglas W. Maynard
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.This research project investigated the literary reading practices of English pre‐service teachers in a South African university and found that students were practising socially responsive reading in their interpretations of Shakespearean plays. Abstract As university teachers of literature, we tend to accept the rhetoric that students lack the capacity
Naomi Nkealah, Maria Prozesky
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Revolutionary Love: Centering the Full Humanity of Children in the Literacy Curriculum
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract This qualitative study explores how teachers implement literacy pedagogies that affirm and engage students despite facing restrictive literacy mandates. We interviewed a focus group of four veteran Revolutionary Loving kindergarten through fifth‐grade teachers from three Title 1 schools in the southeastern United States.
Eliza Braden +4 more
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Literacy, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 83-97, January 2025.Abstract The purpose of the following case study was to examine the daybooks of 3 fourth‐grade writers who autonomously determined the content they included across the pages of their composition books. Three themes emerged from an analysis of their daybooks: (1) Students used their daybooks to engage their writing process; (2) students used their ...
Brian Kissel
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Doggerel Verse and Critical Recoil
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10-12, October-December 2024.ABSTRACT Early 20th‐century critics rediscovered a literary concept called “doggerel” in Geoffrey Chaucer's Sir Thopas and in John Lydgate's mid‐clash poetic line, using the term to help them categorize and periodize the shift in English literature from medieval to modern.
Andrea Denny‐Brown
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Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 152-161, September/October 2024.Abstract This article highlights how mentors in spoken word poetry workshops drew on culturally sustaining pedagogy, modeled their own creativity and vulnerability through their poetry, and amplified the voices of youth poets by encouraging them to explore their identities and grapple with inequities in their own lives.
Jen Scott Curwood
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