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Anne Enright’s writing evinces a nuanced sensitivity to words which nourishes a tension between the realist style and a strong self‐consciousness. This is evident in The Gathering, in which the seemingly chronological occurrences weave out a dynamic pattern of narrative time. Examining Veronica’s experimentation with tense, I argue that the ongoing writing aligns with her progressive mourning. Specifically

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This article contends that the image is a central trope in Paul Celan's poetry. It suggests that Celan's rejection of metaphor and his opposition to readings of his poetry as mere imagery constitute only one side of his understanding of the image. On the other hand, Celan embraces the image when it goes beyond the merely figurative or imitative and approaches a form of ‘Urbild’. This article traces

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ABSTRACT Of all the signature notions that occupy Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Western thought, his concept of potentiality may be the most paradigmatic. Aristotle’s struggle with potentiality hands on to metaphysics a logical impossibility that he appears to solve with a median term: impotentiality. Yet, in reality, impotentiality would have a significant impact on philosophy, specifically how it

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ABSTRACT Early Modern English is regarded as the key period in the establishment of the written standard of the language. The present study contributes to the discussion on the standardisation processes of the English spelling in the period. It assesses the level of orthographic standardisation of London, Wellcome Library, MS 3009 (ff. 17 r–90 r), a 17th-century recipe book. The orthographic variables

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Abstract In 1601 Bess of Hardwick, the wealthiest woman in Elizabethan England (second only to the Queen herself), began her final will and testament. The precision with which Bess bequeathed her monetary and material wealth is striking: her executors and beneficiaries were left little room for interpretation and no excuse for error. This article explores the language and rhetoric of inheritance, alongside

ABSTRACT This paper was presented as a keynote lecture at a conference on ‘Elizabeth Bowen: Blurring Boundaries’, organised by Nicola Darwood and Nick Turner at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, at the end of the morning, just before the scheduled lunch-break, on 8 June 2019. This was only the third time we have had the pleasure of giving a joint paper on Bowen. (Previous occasions were at Goldsmith’s

ABSTRACT The article investigates the significance of the ‘turbo’ imagery that Dante adds at the end of Ulysses’s tale (Inferno xxvi) as a possible key to decoding the nature of this character’s sin. It argues that, in the style of the ancient fable, Dante devised the end of Ulysses’s story in order to make its moral message understandable to a lay, non-academic, readership. To achieve such broad,

ABSTRACT Italy is the Great Incomplete. Every historiographical trend has insisted on this topos, identifying in incompletion and insufficiency the peculiarities of modern Italian history: partial modernity, interrupted Risorgimento, and unresolved identity. This divide can be recognised in the gap between origin and modernity, private and public, individual and collective. The challenge is to work

The song ‘I lov’d and am belov’d again’, written by John Eccles (ca. 1668–1735), is found in London, The British Library Add. MS 29378, fols.140v–43. At the head of the song is the inscription ‘Dialogue in the Adventures of Five Hours’. This refers to Sir Samuel Tuke’s sole literary endeavor of note, the play The Adventures of Five Hours, which had received its first performance in 1663.11 This article

Abstract Since antiquity, philosophers and poets have understood clouds to be principles of generation and procreation. They can turn, Aristophanes tells us, “into anything they want.” They are bound up with the act of begetting and giving birth, of bringing into being the new – hollow vessels, as Seneca would later put it, with solid walls. And yet the creative force of clouds is a strange, even counterintuitive

Abstract In his 1961 song “Nuvole barocche” (Baroque Clouds), Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André commented on the fascination exerted by colorful clouds at sunset and their artistic representation as canonized by the visual culture of the baroque, fittingly emblematized by the transience of clouds themselves. The domain of the visual is turned into that of the acoustic, triggering the synesthetic

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Article Kenningstudien was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

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To shed light on questions pertaining to the similarities and differences between kennings in Old English and in the Poetic Edda, a survey is undertaken of the density of kenning use in the two corpora. The likeliest conclusion to be drawn from a comparison of findings is that the two poetic traditions are rather similar in regard to kenning use. In both traditions, kennings are notably simpler and

There are several reasons why it is of great importance to include the kennings of the metrical runic inscriptions in thorough investigations of kennings, albeit their number is not particularly high. One reason for this is that there are Viking-Age metrical inscriptions with kennings attested from Eastern Scandinavia, and mostly in eddic metres. Further, some of these kennings belong to the oldest

Icelandic poets in the 16 th and 17 th century had great interest in formal features such as rhyme, kennings, and periphrasis. Rímur poets made use of Eddic diction and imagery but the use of kennings was not limited to rímur ; it can also be found in other kinds of poetry. Baroque delight in periphrasis and metrical complexity ensured a favorable reception for the renewed interest in dróttkvætt measure

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Article Harald Bjorvand/Fredrik Otto Lindeman:Våre arveord. Etymologisk ordbok was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

Article Helge Sandøy, Agnete Nesse (eds.):Norsk språkhistorie. Bd. I Mønster (681 S.), Bd. II Praksis (684 S.), Bd. III Ideologi (548 S.), Bd. IV Tidslinjer (798 S.) was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

Article Katharina Fürholzer:Das Ethos des Pathographen: Literatur- und medizinethische Dimensionen von Krankenbiographien was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

Article Leonie Krutzinna:Der norwegische Schwitters. Die Merz-Kunst im Exil was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

Article Rebecca Merkelbach:Monsters in Society. Alterity, Transgression and the Use of the Medieval Past in Medieval Iceland was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal European Journal of Scandinavian Studies (volume 51, issue 1).

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Abstract O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a influência do Integralismo Lusitano na configuração do pensamento nacionalista do compositor e musicólogo Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955). O seu apego ao roteiro ideológico integralista é evidente na revalorização do ‘ser português’ que subjaz a todos os seus escritos. Para o efeito, analisarei duas fontes da sua autoria como estudos de caso. Do seu