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Kent’s Best Man: Radical Chorographic Consciousness and the Identity Politics of Local History in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this article, the character of Jack Cade in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI is reconsidered through an exploration of the local history and traditions of Kent.
Hampton-Reeves, Stuart
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Rule-breaking and meaning-making in Edward Lear

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1993
Nonsense seems to break many rules of semantico-syntactic compatibility and somehow managed to construct discourse. This paper discusses the work of Edward Lear, the 19th century English writer and painter in a attempt to identify some of the linguistic ...
Ponterotto, Diane
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Language Kingdom in William Shakespeare’s King Learand Edward Bond’s Lear

open access: yesCritical Literary Studies, 2019
This paper aims to investigate the role of language as a form of political and social control, and a vehicle for power and domination in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Edward Bond’s Lear on parallel bases.
Fatemeh Mahmoudi-Tazehkand
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Eliot's Naming of Cats

open access: yesNames, 1990
Most of the names of the cat characters in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats are of the “peculiar, and more dignified” type, rather than everyday names, and depend either on sound or on meaning, occasionally on both.
Anne H. Lambert
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The 'Foce' monumental cemetery in Sanremo: mirror of the city as outstanding tourist destination during the Belle Epoque (1880-1915) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The monumental cemetery of Sanremo, was founded in 1838 and now counts about 2000 graves, one third of which belongs to foreigners, evidences of the city as outstanding tourist destination.
Salvini, Silvia
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Réécriture des pièces de Shakespeare : l’enjeu de la modernité ?

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2008
Shakespeare’s works remain a reference when artists — either playwrights or stage professionals — aim at philosophising on human nature. These artists use the Shakespearean material to give vent to their own imagination and critical approach to the world
Estelle Rivier
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Actantial Models in the Owl and the Pussy-cat: A Narrative Scheme on Poem

open access: yesLite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2019
The study entitled "Actantial Model in The Owl and The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear: A Narrative Scheme on Poem " revealed a narration scheme to find out three models in narration text, namely the function model, action model, and narration model realized in
Sarif Syamsu Rizal
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Contemporary Adaptations of King Lear: Power and Dramatic Space in William Shakespeare, Edward Bond and Elaine Feinstein

open access: yesThe Grove, 2021
In his tragedy King Lear (1605) William Shakespeare explores the human psyche through a story of an old king who gives up his land to his two eldest daughters and finds himself forced to wander in the space of the outcasts.
Ana Abril Hernández
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‘the words I taught to him’: Interfusional Language Play and Brian O’Nolan’s ‘Revenge on the English’

open access: yesThe Parish Review, 2016
This article discusses the interlingual and cross-cultural resonances of the Irish language in the English and French intertextuality of O’Nolan’s short fiction and column writing through the coordinate of 'interfusionality.' The argument follows ...
Joseph LaBine
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«Sensational nonsense»

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2015
The essay explores Lear’s contribution to the Victorian aesthetic debate, characterized by a marked resistance to the literary use of sensation (epitomised in Wilkie Collins’ fiction), and in which, according to Bourdieau and to many critics after him,
Antinucci, Raffaella
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