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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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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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Remembering the Vikings: Violence, institutional memory and the instruments of history
History Compass, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2021., 2021 Abstract The Vikings maintain a fearsome and violent reputation to this day. This perspective on vikings was shaped by monastic chroniclers and dynastic propaganda. But are vikings the victims of history because their history has been written by their victims? Viking violence has been contextualised using comparative history but also as the result of a
Caitlin Ellis
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At the origins of literary onomastics
Неофилология, 2019 We present the history of the emergence and development of literary onomastics, the relevance of which is currently not in doubt due to the involvement of its data for the analysis of the artistic world of different authors as linguists and literary ...
Svetlana A. Skuridina
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Possessive Adjectives Formed from Personal Names in Polish Translations of the New Testament [PDF]
, 2013 The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament.
Zarębski, Rafał
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Poétique/Politique de l'artifice dans Richard II
Sillages Critiques, 2009 This paper aims at relating two apparently distinct approaches to Richard II’s conspicuous degree of structural and stylistic sophistication. One is the historical and political context of Queen Elizabeth’s succession — a hot debate in which indirection ...
Pierre Iselin
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Linguistic Equivalence of the Hebrew Term Eden in Slavic Translations of the Bible [PDF]
, 2016 The authors study different equivalents of the Hebrew word Eden in selected old and new Slavic translations of the Bible. The equivalents of this lexeme have been excerpted from several Slavic translations of the Bible, which were selected on the basis ...
Kawecka, Agata, Zarębski, Rafał
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Functioning of Proper Names in the English Literary Text [PDF]
, 2021 This article discusses the functioning of proper names in a literary text. The primary attention is paid to the study of the essential functions of anthroponyms.
Yunusova, Gunel Xanlar
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Stylistic function of onomastic units
Scientific Bulletin, 2020 As a result of our research, English onomastics shows that there are close associative links between language and culture, historical reality, and as a result, metaphorical shades and stylistic connotations appear in the semantics of onomastic units.
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