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Ethnobotanical History: Duckweeds in Different Civilizations. [PDF]
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Epic meals: Who should read epic poetry in Rome?
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.
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
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
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"Through blackening pools of blood": Trauma and Translation in Robert Graves's The Anger of Achilles. [PDF]
McKenzie L.
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Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and the Ossian controversy [PDF]
A study of the influence of the controversy about Macpherson's Ossian poems on Scott's novel The ...
Leask, Nigel
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
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
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The Lyrics of the “others”: about poetry of 2010
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.
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Albanian Lyrical Poetry and the Healing Process after the Fall of the Communist Regime
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
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Perspectives: War and conflict: a personal journey. [PDF]
McEwen YT.
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
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
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