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Ritual and Assemblage: Reading Hybrid Elegy Through Changing American Death Practices

Humanities
In American Hybrid (2009), Cole Swenson describes hybrid poetics as a reconciliation between the two dominant poetic traditions of the 20th century, which might be called lyric and experimental (xx–xxi).
Anastasia Nikolis
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 439-454, December 2025.
This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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„Uspokojona, uspokajająca... Elegia młodopolska jako ogniwo modernistycznych dziejów gatunku

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2007
This dissertation shows synthetically the Young Poland elegy together with a proposal, due to properties of aesthetics and subject matter of the typology of the genre in this epoch: 1.
Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 12-29, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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Climate Poetics: Contemporary Ecopoetry and the Remaking of Elegy

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT One manifestation of the cascading ecological crises that characterize our current moment is a weakening of any sense of futurity. The implacable escalation of the climate crisis, the amplification of which is already inevitable given the carbon already in the atmosphere, has the effect of eroding any forward‐facing enterprise and ...
Thomas Storey
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BİR AĞIT OLARAK İNSAN

Felsefe Dünyası, 2002
Human Being as an ethical being can be represented as an elegy. She creates herself by poeticizing her life. She endeavours to live her life like a poem. But her life is nothing but an elegy. Why is it so?
Ahmet İnam
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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Genre of khaghani’s elegies [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2016
 Abstract  Elegy in word is derived from Rasa-Yarso means weeping on dead people. It is also defined as enumerating deceased benefits and composing the poem about. Elegy is categorized into different parts as follows: 1. Courtier 2.
Alireza Shanazari
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“Have the Menacing Alcaean Muses Blown the War Trumpets Again?” Two Versions of Jacobus Wallius’ Ode to Mathias Casimirus Sarbieviu [PDF]

, 2015
Item does not contain fulltextThe article discusses the Neo-Latin eulogy by the Flemish Jesuit Jacobus Wallius (1599-1690) to the famous Pole Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius (1595-1640).
Hulsenboom, Paul
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An Analysis of Figurative Language in Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)
Figurative language is one of intrinsic elements of a poem. The use of figurative language is intended to beautify expressions or sentences. The purpose of this research was to describe the types of figurative languages used by Thomas Gray in his poem ...
Ruly Adha
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