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Decoding Muslim Cultural Code: Oral Poetic Tradition of the Jbala (Northern Morocco)

Open Theology
Spiritual, sometimes directly imbued and sometimes indirectly suggestive of religiosity, poetic genres are common in all corners of the Arab world. While authored religious poetry in Arabic is fairly well studied, oral, unauthored poetic traditions ...
Gintsburg Sarali
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To the Centennial of the Collection of German Expressionist Poems: the Anthology “Twilight of Humanity: a Symphony of the Newest Poetry” By Kurt Pinthus as one Whole Literary Work

Филологический класс, 2021
The article presents and substantiates a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of one of the most important and famous literary documents of the 20th century – the anthology of expressionist poetry in German “Twilight of Humanity: A Symphony of the
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THE LANGUAGE OF IMPROVISATION IN THE DOINA AND THE BALLAD [PDF]

Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2022
In the folklore culture, improvisation can be found within works belonging to three distinct branches, which also are in syncretic relation: the literary, musical, and choreographic branches.
BADRAJAN, SVETLANA
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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BOOK OF POEMS AS A GENRE IN THE WORKS OF “PEREVAL” POETS (P. DRUZHININ, N. ZARUDIN, D. SEMENOVSKY)

Филологический класс, 2019
Creative activity of the poets from the literary Association “Pereval” has still been insufficiently studied, although it was a special phenomenon in the Russian literature of the 1920s-1930s. The contemporaries, including one of the founders of “Pereval”
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Body and Soul: the Binary Oppositions in K. Simonov’s Poem You Told Me: “I Love You”…

Филологический класс, 2020
The purpose of the article is to study the basics of K. Simonov’s mythopoetics on the material of the poem You told me: “I love you”… The material of the study was the final version of the poem, however, in order to clarify the components of the revealed
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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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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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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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