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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made

The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 324-340, April 2023., 2023
Abstract In the context of popular culture, the work of Lovecraft deserves a prominent role, not only for its influence on many later authors, but for its profound impact on 20th century popular culture, from music and video games to films, comics, and merchandising.
Jose Luis Arroyo‐Barrigüete
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The Multilingual Minister: Languages and Code‐Switching in the Life‐Writing of Scottish Highland Scholar and Traveller, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709)

Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 57-74, February 2023., 2023
Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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BEYOND NARCISSISM: THE MULTI‐LAYERED NARCISSUS REFERENCE IN HERMANN HESSE'S NARZISS UND GOLDMUND*

German Life and Letters, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 270-296, April 2020., 2020
Abstract Freud's theory of narcissism, developed in the 1910s and 1920s, can be seen as a radical break with the Narcissus tradition in that the myth of Narcissus is turned into a theory about man's psychosexual constitution. This prompts the question of whether, or to what extent, Freud's theory influenced subsequent literary treatments of the theme ...
Niclas Johansson
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Squaring the Circle of the Karenin Family: On the Associative Potential of the Main Character’s Two Names in the Novel by Leo Tolstoy [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2012
The article analyzes the associative potential of the family names Karenina (Каренина) and Oblonskaya (Облонская) both belonging to the main character of the famous novel.
Anatoly A. Fomin
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Ukrainian onomastic realities in poetic discourse by Nicholay Zerov

Opera in onomastica, 2019
Статтю присвячено дослідженню функційних особливостей онімів, що номінують українські реалії у поетичному дискурсі видатного українського поета-неокласика М. Зерова. Встановлено комунікативно-прагматичну скерованість антропонімів і топонімів у контексті сонетів українського митця, способи їхньої участі у створенні художнього цілого – поетичного циклу ...
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US Fairytales of the First Half of the 20th Century: Constructing the National (Stylistic and Plot Peculiarities)

Филологический класс, 2020
In the early twentieth century, American writers first started looking for a manner to describe the national, partially breaking away from the European canon, yet still following it to an extent.
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Proper Names in the Poetry of Marina Slugina

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. In Finno-Ugric studies, there is a noticeable lack of research on literary onomastics, and the semantic functions of proper names within the structure of literary texts are insufficiently explored. The purpose of this article is to identify
Svetlana V. Sheyanova
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Anthroponyms and Microtextology of Literary Text

SHS Web of Conferences, 2018
This article deals with the basic types and functions of adjective constructions “accompanying” proper names in the literary text. This article continues research in the field of poetic onomastics. Stories and short novels by canonical Tatar writers such
Zinnatullina Gulshat
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