Meta-parody in contemporary Russian media: viewpoint blending behind Dmitry Bykov’s 2009 poem “Infectious”

martyr and martyrdom in arabic contemporary poem

the subject of the martyrdom and the martyr didn't develop and didn't become of various kinds, unless in the modern age and of course, after the wars had occurred in arabic countries and after revolutions had taken place and after the moslem champions had sacrificed themselves to allah and home country. so that, we see poets everyday that they cooperate with these champions in these r...

(c) Modern Humanities Research Assn HEINE’S RUSSIAN DOPPELGA• NGER: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRANSLATIONS OF HIS POETRY

Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...

Contemporary Russian Identity between East and West

A B S T R ACT. This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how scholars became more sceptical about the possibility of Russia building a Western-type liberal democracy. The second part investigate...

Infectious Disease Update-2009

Closely related to Bordetella pertussis, the cause of “whooping cough” in humans, Bordetella bronchiseptica is a gram negative, aerobic coccobacillus particularly well adapted to colonize the ciliated respiratory epithelium of dogs and cats. Today, this organism is regarded as the principle etiologic agent of canine infectious tracheobronchitis (ITB). In the clinical setting, however, B. bronch...

Viewpoint Diversity and Media Ownership