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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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On Mapping Genre: Literary Fiction/Genre Fiction and Globalization Processes

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter argues that the two phrases, 'literary fiction' and 'genre fiction', mark competing territorial claims from two sides of the literary establishment with regard to ordering and disposing (fictional) texts. These territorial claims are better understood with reference to the political economy of the literary establishment, the social ...
openaire  

Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
wiley   +1 more source

Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low‐carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio‐political strategies present within these maps
William Monteith
wiley   +1 more source

The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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FEUILLETONISTIC AND TRAVELOGUE DISCOURSE IN MIJO MIRKOVIĆ/ MATE BALOTA’S NONFICTION Cultural transformations in the Istra se mijenja (Istria is changing) feuilleton series

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2012
The paper explores the function of feuilletonistic discourse in the work of Mijo Mirković/Mate Balota (1898–1963). We analyzed the communication aspect of popular non-fictional genres in the processes of construction of identities and promotion of ...
Nataša Urošević
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