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Ukrainian standard variants in the 20th century: stylometry to the rescue
In this study, we use the General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC, www.uacorpus.org ) as an experimental field for testing stylometric...
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Early 20th Century: Modernism
At the beginning of the 20th century, and especially from around 1910, poetry and the arts in general rebelled against aestheticism and the...
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From Mid-20th-Century to the Present
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, the closer one moves towards the present day, the more difficult it becomes to write a literary history....
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From the Second Half of the 20th Century to the 21st Century
The fact that with the 1930s an era came to an end and something new began was explicitly formulated by contemporary poets, for example by Auden:...
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The Conceptualisation of EUROPE in the Italian Press since the Early 20th Century
In media coverage, Europe is understood as either political or institution-specific. Metaphorical expressions, such as the PATH / JOURNEY / TRANSPORT...
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Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines
This analysis examines an archaeology of statal narratives as they relate to the multilingual linguistic milieu of the Philippines since independence...
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Paris’s Choice (1670) by Charles Davenant: A Seventeenth-Century Play Preserved in a University Manuscript Miscellany
The purpose of this article is to analyse and discuss a seventeenth-century University play, Paris’s choice by Charles Davenant, and provide...
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The Electronic Corpus of 17th- and 18th-century Polish Texts
The paper describes the process of building the electronic corpus of 17th- and 18th-century Polish texts, a relatively large, balanced, structurally...
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20th-century Soviet–Russian dictionary front matter: focus on the linguistic norm
Two iconic twentieth-century print dictionaries provide a sampling of dictionary front matter in the Soviet–Russian lexicographic tradition; they...
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19th Century Middle to Late: Victorianism
The long reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) was marked by the emergence of a new social, economic and political stability in England. The...
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Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900 Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled...
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Dante, American-Style: Seymour Chwast’s Graphic Adaptations of the Divine Comedy and European Literature
In 2010, the American graphic designer Seymour Chwast (New York, °1931) published Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation , which condenses...
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The morphologization of German noun-participle combinations. A diachronic case study
The present paper focuses on the recent history of German noun-participle combinations in which the noun saturates an argument of the base verb....
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On “Science-Literature-Art” in Chinese Children’s Literature
As a modern academic neologism, “science-literature-art” is an important component of Chinese children’s literature. Looking back on the process of...
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A corpus of Persian literary text
Persian poetry has profoundly affected all periods of Persian literature and the literature of other countries as well. It is a fundamental vehicle...
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Introduction
This book follows a double aim. On the one hand, it is designed to provide the reader with an overview of the history of English poetry. Reaching...
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Populism and Populist Discourse in North America
This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political...
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Epistolary Constructions of Post-World War I Identity The Invisibility of Minority Groups
This book analyses the letters of marginalised groups of World War I soldiers - including Black, Indian and disabled ex-servicemen - from a...
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Track Changes
The sound changes that took place in the history of English did so in a particular order, with the outcomes of one sound change forming the input for...
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Understanding the Design Values of Baby Books: Materiality, Co-presence, and Remediation
In this article we analyze the design values of selected baby books published in England, the United States and Italy across 100 years. The examples...
