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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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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 In this article the possibilities of the use of place names in the literary texts of the two languages of different systems are grouped. Here the fact is proved that writers treat individually real place names.
Irada Y Ganiyeva
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Formation of new linguistic competences in education space: naming examination
SHS Web of Conferences, 2016 The naming examination is a new kind of linguistic examination. The article deals with linguistic aspects of teaching this course in higher school for the special training of experts.
Remchukova Elena, Sokolova Tatiana
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Proper Names in the Poetry of Marina Slugina
Финно-угорский мирIntroduction. 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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Between History and Interpretation: Transformation of Historical Meanings in Hungarian Translation of Pavlo Zahrebelnyi’s Yevpraksiia [PDF]
Alfred Nobel University Journal of PhilologyThe article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the rendering of culture-specific vocabulary in the Hungarian translation of Pavlo Zahrebelnyi’s historical novel Yevpraksiia, translated by Pál Mislei (1980), as well as an analysis of the influence ...
Oksana Talabirchuk
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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‘To assume another name’: Race, gender, family and name changing in New York City, 1887–2012
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 218-233, March 2025.Abstract The name‐change petitions housed in the New York City Civil Court allow us to see the ways that Jewish families, cisgender women and transgender people throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries used state mechanisms to challenge institutionalised antisemitism and traditional definitions of family and gender. At the same time, however,
Kirsten Fermaglich
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