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Lyric - keeper of the past : on the poetics of popular poetry in T. Percy's "Reliques of ancient poetry" and J. G. Herder's "Volkslieder" [PDF]

, 2011
Both Percy and Herder establish popular poetry within the horizon of modern literature, accentuating its strangeness compared to learned poetry or "Kunstdichtung".
Martínez, Matías
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Conceptualization of Positive Evaluation in the Old English Poetry

Філологічні студії
The study of axiological semantics in linguistics has traditionally focused on synchronic analysis, which has limited the understanding of the dynamics in the development of evaluative concepts.
Olha Soloviova
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Identities in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf

The Grove, 2020
The present article sets out to prove the hypothesis that the Modern English translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney reflects his Irish political and cultural roots.
Eleonora Nakova Katileva
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Yeatsian Shades In Ó Direáin and Macgill-Eain

Scottish Studies, 2017
Michael Hartnett’s grandiloquent valediction ‘A Farewell to English’, first delivered from the stage of the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 1974, announced the thirty-three year-old poet’s decision to cease publishing in his native English, the language in ...
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
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The images and structure of The Wife's Lament [PDF]

, 2002
No abstract ...
Hall, Alaric
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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The Transitus of the Soul and the Intercession of the Angels in Old English Resignation A 49b-56

Filologia Germanica
Resignation (A+B) is still a subject of debate as to its textual unity and classification. Though it is usually partnered to the Old English elegies, Resignation A (ll. 1-70) bears more affinities with penitential poetry.
Gabriele Cocco
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