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Ethnobotanical History: Duckweeds in Different Civilizations. [PDF]

open access: yesPlants (Basel), 2022
Edelman M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Epic meals: Who should read epic poetry in Rome?

open access: yesActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, 2020
In this paper, the presence of food and dinners in connection with epic poetry in three different Juvenalian poems is discussed. The first is Satire 4 containing a mock-epic, the plot of which revolves around a giant turbot that is described with epic-style elements, and that is given to the emperor Domitian characterized by uncontrolled gluttony.
openaire   +1 more source

Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and the Ossian controversy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A study of the influence of the controversy about Macpherson's Ossian poems on Scott's novel The ...
Leask, Nigel
core  

The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 41-54, February 2026.
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
wiley   +1 more source

The Lyrics of the “others”: about poetry of 2010

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2011
The article sheds light upon new books of poetry of 2010, it characterizes the positions of “senior” and “younger” generations of poets, draws attention to the amplification of social trend of poetry, gives examples of “new epic” in lyrics.
doaj  

Albanian Lyrical Poetry and the Healing Process after the Fall of the Communist Regime

open access: yesInterlitteraria
Albanian literature is considered to be a domain of epic genres. The reason is strongly related to the historical and social context in which art and literature were developed.
Marisa Kërbizi
doaj   +1 more source

Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

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