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Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood in Tolkien [PDF]
, 2017 This essay is a much extended version of the paper I gave at the IMC Leeds on 5 July 2017. It examines Tolkien’s complex attitude towards the concept(s) of chivalry and knighthood.
Honegger, Thomas
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Perspectives Médiévales, 2016 “In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?” This oft-quoted sentence actually comes from a review written by Sidney Smith in January 1820 for the Edinburgh Review of Adam Seybert’s book, Statistical Annals of the United States of ...
Pauline Pilote
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Criticón, 2009 This paper deals with the connections and stylistic divergences between the historiographic prose and the fictional one from the second half of the 16th century. It also pays attention to how style is taken under consideration in several paratexts.
David Mañero Lozano
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Hiszpański romans rycerski w sieci
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2020 In 16th-century Spain, the romances of chivalry were one of the pillars of the publishing industry. Today, however, they remain little known to both the general public and literary researchers who rediscovered them just a few decades ago.
Katarzyna Setkowicz
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Transcendental metagenre travelers: a background of the reception of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spain and France [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Duche, Veronique, Perez De Leon, Vicente
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“This sympathizèd one day’s error”: Genre, Representation, and Subjectivity in The Comedy of Errors [PDF]
, 2012 This essay reexamines the mixtures of genres in The Comedy of Errors to argue that Shakespeare's play encourages reflection on genre as a mode of representation.
Martine van Elk
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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