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Configuring Psalm 29 as a Poem: Cognitive Strategies and the Artful Reading Experience

open access: yesReligions
The classic modern framework for biblical Hebrew poetry is based upon intertwined conceptions of parallelism and meter. This framework provides certain assumptions for how biblical lines work, as well as (often implicit) strategies for how biblical poems
Emmylou J. Grosser
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Researching Chinese History and Culture through Poetry Writing in an EFL Composition Class

open access: yesL2 Journal, 2013
This article describes a pedagogical project designed to optimize opportunities for individual, creative expression in L2 academic writing. Conducted in four EFL Composition classes in a university in mainland China, a writing project using poetry as a ...
Rebecca Todd Garvin
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Theme of a poet and poetry in Community “Pereval’s” works: the overall sketch

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014
The author investigates the role of the classic theme “A poet and poetry” in the context of the literary process 1920-1930-ies in the works of Community “Pereval’s” poets.
A Y Ovtcharenko
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

RUSSIAN POETRY AT THE TURN OF THE XX-XXI CENTURY: DEVELOPMENT VECTORS

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2016
The article presents an analysis of the main Russian modern poetry directions. The author explores the state of the poetic environment at the turn of the XXth and XXIst centuries and estimates the most significant changes in the poetics of the period ...
E S Zinurova
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From Cambridge to Brighton: Concrete poetry in Britain, an interview with Stephen Bann [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Extensive interview with art historian, curator and concrete poet Stephen Bann by Gustavo Grandal Montero, focusing particularly on his curatorial, critical and artistic work of the 1960s, closely involved with the development of Concrete poetry in the ...
Grandal Montero, Gustavo
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

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