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Gothic gen.pl. -e [PDF]

, 2010
Don Ringe has recently published an article on the Gothic gen. pl. ending -e (2006) which is as peculiar for the author’s self-confidence as it is illustrative of the lack of knowledge in some quarters of the Indo-Europeanist scholarly ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The Gothic Imagination in Ukrainian Romanticism

TranscUlturAl, 2008
Although there have been many studies devoted to the Gothic in European and American Romantic literatures, it remains largely overlooked in Ukrainian literature.
Svitlana Krys
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THE EXCESS OF GOTHIC IN EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SHORT STORIES AND ABDULLAH HARAHAP’S MANUSIA SERIGALA

Lire Journal
Gothic literature has been studied through various lens. However, the study about gothic literature through the lens of gothic excess has not explored. Therefore, this article will discuss about gothic excess comparatively.
Rida Aulia Yasmin, Pepen Priyawan, Udayani Permanaludin   +2 more
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A Hidden History of Unhappiness

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
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Neo-gothic motifs in the novel by I. Welsh “The Blade Artist”

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
The peculiarities of the interpretation of neo-gothic motifs in the novel by I. Welsh “The Blade Artist” are examined. Many researchers have paid attention to the processing of the usual neo-gothic tropes in postmodern literature, however, in relation to
Tatiana A. Naumenko, Larisa A. Nazarova
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Gothic elements in contemporary detective story : Matthew Gregory Lewis and Minette Walters compared

Acta Neophilologica, 2009
One of the most shocking Gothic novels was written by Matthew Gregory Lewis in 1796. His Gothic novel The Monk contains all the typical Gothic elements such as a ruined castle, aggressive villain, women in distress, the atmosphere of terror and horror ...
Vesna Marinko
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, Volume 81, Issue 9, Page 306-311, September 2026.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 946-964, September 2026.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 375-392, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Gothic television [PDF]

This thesis examines forms of Gothic fiction on television, and defines the ways in which television produces Gothic drama which is medium-specific (e.g. formally distinct from versions of the genre in other media).
Wheatley, Helen
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