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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, EarlyView.Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Where You End and I Begin : Notes on Subjectivity and Ethics in the Translation of Poetry
, 2017 What can translation teach us about poetry and poetics? To what extent is a lyric constellation portable, and to what extent is it embedded in a particular culture or language? How much of a foreign syntax can be replicated before things break down? What
LINGENFELTER, Andrea
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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How Do I Measure up? Social Influence and L2 Motivation in the Algorithmic Age
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Comparative thinking is a fundamental human drive and a hallmark of contemporary life. For social action, such as the learning and use of additional languages, a target for appraisal (an L2 attribute) is evaluated in relation to a comparison standard (an appraiser's standpoint).
Alastair Henry, Meng Liu
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SELIMBook review of Tolkien, J. R. R. 2023. The Battle of Maldon Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. Edited by Peter Grybauskas. London: Harper Collins. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780008465827.
Rafael J. Pascual
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Half-Heard Voices of the Primal Zone; Sleep and Waking in a Poem by Cao Shuying
, 2017 Initially touching artifacts and sculpture from ancient Greece, and the risk of misreading thought or emotion cross-culturally, this essay draws briefly on Wordsworth’s testimony that poetic process arises first in a primally sensual and pre-verbal zone.
O’CONNELL, George, SHI, Diana
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One Voice, Ancient and Resigned [PDF]
, 2020 While we know, or at least can imagine, what Gower looked like in his old age, it is hard to imagine or hear his voice. And yet, given what we know about his old age and visual impairments, his voice necessarily was important to his old age and ...
Rogers, Will
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