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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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Stillness in John Fuller’s Corsica

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2017
Séduit depuis toujours par le monde méditerranéen, le poète contemporain britannique John Fuller consacre plusieurs textes à la Corse à partir de la fin des années 1980. Fasciné et intrigué par les paysages insolites des tafoni ou des Calanques de Piana,
Aurélien Saby
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Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and ArtPhilip Hardie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2022. xi + 361 pp. ISBN 13: 9780691197869. $49.95 (cloth).

Milton Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 37-41, March 2026.
Maggie Kilgour
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Chaplin's Eyes

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 32-41, December 2025.
Kate Hext
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Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story

European Journal of American Studies, 2015
This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction.
Pascale Antolin
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Theory in Poetic Form: Responding to The Book of Clouds

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 913-923, December 2025.
Oludamini Ogunnaike
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W. B. Yeats’ “September 1913” as an Elegy: Generic Deviation

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2018
A literary work is most often characterised by formal, thematic and stylistic features. The distinction between these is never obvious, though. In a Petrarchan sonnet, for instance, the form is closely tied to the theme (tension in the octet and relief ...
Lamia Jaoua Sahnoun
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Appropriating English

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 905-906, December 2025.
Anand Vivek Taneja
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The Performance Contexts of Trochaic Tetrameters Catalectic

Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2018
The paper explores the evidence for the archaic performance context or contexts of Archilochus’ and Solon’s trochaic tetrameter catalectic poems, noting that they were chanted rather than sung or spoken and thus different from both elegy and iambic ...
Ewen Bowie
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The Work of Verse: An Introduction to the Symposium

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 887-888, December 2025.
Nathanael Homewood
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