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A Poet Builds a Nation: Hafez as a Catalyst in Emerson’s Process of Developing American Literature [PDF]
, 2014 Numerous studies have tried to elucidate the relationship between Emerson and Hafez. While most of these studies laid emphasis on influence of Hafez on Emerson and others on similarity and/or infatuation, they left untouched some vital historical aspects
Adineh Khojastehpour +1 more
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(Post)Modern Apocrypha as an Epiphany of Sense (on the Basis of Bulgarian Literary Biblical Paraphrases) [PDF]
, 2014 The paper is devoted to the author’s concept of modern apocrypha in the context of the two main tendencies of (Post)modernity: unmasking and paraphrasing.
Drzewiecka, Ewelina
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The Effect of Cognates on Cognitive Control in Late Sequential Multilinguals: A Bilingual Advantage?
Behavioral Sciences, 2019 The present study investigated the influence of Dutch-German cognates resp. orthographic neighbors on controlled language processing (i.e., response inhibition).
Jorik Fidler, Katja Lochtman
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Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope: reflections, applications, perspectives [PDF]
, 2012 This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been ...
Bemong, Nele +5 more
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Phonetic Detail in German Syllable Pronunciation: Influences of Prosody and Grammar
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This study presents two experiments designed to disentangle various influences on syllable pronunciation. Target syllables were embedded in carrier sentences, read aloud by native German participants, and analyzed in terms of syllable and vowel duration,
Barbara eSamlowski +2 more
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Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature [PDF]
, 2008 Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate ...
Fabb, Nigel
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Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language?
Brain Sciences, 2022 We suggest a later timeline for full language capabilities in Homo sapiens, placing the emergence of language over 200,000 years after the emergence of our species. The late Paleolithic period saw several significant changes.
Christer Johansson, Per Olav Folgerø
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Spatial Literary Studies versus Literary Geography?
The Journal of English Language and Literature, 2019 Scholars have long examined the relationship between literature and space, place, or mapping, but formal methods or disciplines for such work have only recently come into being. Particularly after what has been called the “spatial turn” in the humanities and social sciences, researchers from various academic and artistic disciplines have developed work
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Latour and Literary Studies [PDF]
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2015 I am interested in questions of reading and interpretation. I am also drawn to actor-network theory and the work of Bruno Latour. Can these attractions be brought into alignment? To what extent can a style of thought that describes itself as empiricist and rejects critique speak to the dominant concerns of literary studies?
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Childhood Trauma and the Burden of Prophecy in Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOChildhood trauma has emerged as a critical subject in contemporary literary and psychological discourse, reflecting the enduring scars left by early adverse experiences.
Oluwatosin Ayomikun OYEWOLE +2 more
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