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A Choice of Two: Structure and Literary Form in “Auðunar þáttr vestfirska”
“Auðunar þáttr vestfirska” or the story of “Audun and the Bear” is about two kings, one Icelander, and one bear, and concerns a wide range of topics...
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“Think on the Bludy Serk:” Allegory and Figura in Henryson’s Minor Poem
This essay analyzes the allegorical mode of the previously understudied poem by Robert Henryson, The Bludy Serk. In Serk , a knight saves a lady whom...
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Russian aspect from a cognitive linguistic perspective
This article discusses the category of verbal aspect in Russian (as a representative of East Slavic) from the point of view of cognitive linguistics...
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De France dulce m’unt tolud la flor”: On the Chanson de Roland and the Liber floridus
This article looks at the encyclopedic Liber Floridus (Lambert de St Omer, c. 1121) and the Oxford Chanson de Roland (c. 1100) and how these coeval...
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Reflexives and politeness: possessive pronouns in Russian imperative sentences
In Russian, a specialized reflexive possessive pronoun must be used to indicate coreference between the possessor and the subject. However, it has...
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Syntactic feminitives in Russian: a case study of an online Russian language radical feminist group
This paper analyzes the use of alternative feminine agreement in constructions with an interrogative-relative pronoun kto , indefinite pronouns kto-to ,...
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Ecophobia and Social Class Identity: An Ecocritical Approach to the Nature/Culture Divide in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales “The Young King” and “The Star Child”
This article applies an ecocritical approach to the analysis of the nature/culture divide in Oscar Wilde’s “The Young King” and “The Star-Child”....
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Hebban olla vogala: An Eleventh-Century Link Between Dutch and English Literary History
The short eleventh-century lyric Hebban olla vogala is considered the earliest literary text in Dutch. Yet it only survives as a badly faded pen...
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“von kindlichen Träumen belogen”: Joachim Ringelnatz’ (ent-)idealisierte Märchenwelt
Entgegen der Popularität von Joachim Ringelnatz’ (1883–1934) Märchen beim Lesepublikum, fehlt bislang eine diachrone Betrachtung seiner Neigung zur...
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Perfil revisado: Vicente Aleixandre, Antonio Machado y otros lectores de Carolina Coronado en la Edad de Plata
Important authors of the Spanish Silver Age such as Vicente Aleixandre or Antonio Machado show, at some point in their work, the reading and...
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Диссимилятивный вокализм: три говора
The paper analyzes the pre-stress vocalic systems in three parts of Russia, the Smolensk, Tambov, and Kostroma regions, which are maximally distant...
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Virtuelle Metamorphosen - Zur Subversion der Selbstoptimierung in Kevin Kuhns Roman Hikikomori
Kevin Kuhn’s novel Hikikomori is a postmodern Entwicklungsroman. In this essay, I read the novel as a subversion of the neoliberal paradigm, which...
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Корпус предложений для изучающих русский язык как иностранный: влияние универсальных параметров на лексический доступ на неродном языке
Lexical access while reading is affected by language-specific (morphology, spelling) and universal (predictability, frequency, word length) factors....
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“I Demand the Friendship of Zoroaster”: William Godwin and World Literature of Friendship
The debate about world literature holds a prominent place in national and comparative literary studies today. However, despite its significance,...
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Edward Garnett and Arnold Bennett: The Publisher’s Reader and a Budding Novelist
Four hitherto unpublished letters from Edward Garnett (1868–1936) to Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), dated 26 February and 6 March 1902, and 27 November...
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Verification of the effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies using Russian word formation based on empirical research
This study aims to verify the effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies using Russian word formation through empirical research. More...
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Microsyntax meets macrosyntax: Russian neg-words revisited
This paper offers a new analysis of Russian syntactic idioms consisting of stressed general negation n´e - fused with a wh -word ( k -word). The elements...
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Непричёсанные мысли по поводу «Академической грамматики современного русского языка»: на примере численно-именных словосочетаний
A new academic grammar of Russian must satisfy three basic requirements: it must be 1) active , or oriented from Meaning to Text, that is, to specify...
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“Arrojóse el mancebito/al charco de los atunes” de Luis de Góngora y la representación paródica del héroe-galán mitológico.
Góngora’s parody “Arrojóse el mancebito” (1589) is one of the foundational poems in the context of Gongora’s corpus as it may have inspired a new...
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Metaphors in the Muspilli
This study delves into the metaphorical nature of the OHG Muspilli . Employing cognitive linguistics, the research aims to explore the deeper...