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Charity, good deeds and the poor in Serbian epic poetry [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2005
The analysis of relation between the poor and the concept of charity in Serbian epic poetry is initiated as part of the research project "Ethnic and social stratification of the Balkans", which includes study of social margins and subcultures in oral ...
Petrović Sonja
doaj   +1 more source

Epítetos y expresiones de apariencia épica en las comedias de Aristófanes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Al leer las comedias de Aristófanes, nos encontramos con numerosos epítetos que por su formación y significado se parecen a los que caracterizan al lenguaje de la épica.
Calderón   +25 more
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

BRAZIL AND THE RIVER PLATE: CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE EPIC IN THE 19TH CENTURY

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020
In the 19th century, Brazil and the River Plate countries take a leading position regarding the epic genre: the controversy over The Confederação dos Tamoios (1856) was accompanied by the publication of an enormous number of epic poems, exceeded only by ...
Dirk Brunke
doaj  

De Roncesvalles a Pavía

open access: yesCriticón, 2012
The article focuses on the influence of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso in the Spanish epic of the Golden Age through the poems devoted to the legend of Bernardo del Carpio.
Lara Vilà
doaj   +1 more source

Alberto Lista: An anglophile pioneer in Spanish translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Alberto Lista es una figura pionera en la traducción literaria española. Una persona multicultural del siglo dieciocho, miembro de un grupo literario en Sevilla que tornó su mirada hacia la literatura inglesa en una época en la que la mayoría de los ...
Torralbo Caballero, Juan de Dios
core   +3 more sources

Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

The Rhythm of the Gods’ Voice. The Suggestion of Divine Presence through Prosody

open access: yesArys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020
In this article, I draw attention to the gods’ pickiness in the audible flow of their utterances, a prosodic characteristic of speech that evokes the presence of the divine.
Ronald Blankenborg
doaj   +1 more source

The universality of poetry in Aristotle’s Poetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
This paper considers three questions arising out of Aristotle's statement that poetry is concerned with the universal. First, what does it mean? Secondly, what constraints does it impose on the construction of (in particular) tragic plots?
Belfiore   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

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