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Reading and Writing on Reading and Writing: Short Poetry on Flyleaves in a Manuscript of the Metrical Grammar (DCA 00065)
Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography. 2021. Vol. 17. No. 1. P. 255–273.
The short pieces discussed in the paper were added between larger texts and on
the flyleaves by the scribe himself. Thematically, the poems may be divided in two
blocks: the first one contains poems on reading, studying grammar, and on the scribal
activities, whereas the second one comprises poetry ascribed to Bar ʿEbrōyō on different
topics. The manuscript under discussion – Bar ʿEbrōyō’s (1226–1286) Metrical
Grammar (DCA 00065) – was written in 1552 by ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, an East Syrian
patriarch (1555–1570), poet and copyist.
These small pieces forming short verse collections illustrate the complex processes
that took place in the manuscript circulation and literary life during the Early Ottoman
period. All the short poems were never published or studied before, and for that reason
they are placed here in the Appendix in both Syriac original and English translation.
Копылова Е. В., Лапшина К. М., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 № 22 С. 284–307
The article presents a lexico-typological description of the verbs of change in Karelian within a frame-based approach. The data was gained from dictionaries and corpora or elicited from native speakers, including bilinguals with Finnish.
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Rakhilina E. V., Zhukova V., Akhapkina Y., Zeitschrift fur Slawistik 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 259–284
This study examines the most numerous type of construction presented in the Russian Constructicon, namely intensifiers. We studied intensifiers in the context of comparative constructions of inequality like Х bol’še Y‘X is bigger than Y’ –> Х gorazdo bol’še Y‘X is much bigger than Y’. Comparative constructions and intensifiers are usually studied separately since they ...
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Moskvina Z. О., Филология: научные исследования 2026 № 8 С. 629–640
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Borkina A., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 30–48
The article examines the novel by Japanese writer Qudan Rie Tokyo Sympathy Tower, which was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Literary Prize in 2024. The award sparked a wide discussion due to the writer’s use of generative artificial intelligence in her work, which not only suggested some ideas, but also became the prototype for one of ...
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Bodrova A. S., Русская литература 2026 № 3 С. 64–75
The article discusses the previously ignored parallels between The Same Old Story by I. A. Goncharov and a fragment of V. F. Odoyevsky’s unfinished novel Year 4338. Letters from Petersburg published in Issue 1 of Moskovsky Nabliudatel magazine in 1825. A detailed analysis of plot, motif, imagery similes between the two texts is provided, the ...
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Tsygunova M., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 525 С. 56–66
This article examines examples of metaphorical creativity in the works of contemporary American writer Chuck Palahniuk, particularly in the context of describing psychoemotional states. The study examines twenty-six works by Palahniuk (twenty-three short stories and three novels) and identifies examples of metaphorical creativity in the conceptualization of mental states. The analysis focuses on Palahniuk's unconventional ...
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Chernov A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 217–230
This publication introduces a previously unpublished note by prominent conservative thinker and diplomat Alexandru Sturdza, "The Application of the Holy Alliance to the Current Situation," written in October 1820. The document emerged in the context of an acute crisis of the Vienna system caused by a wave of revolutionary uprisings in Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, ...
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Tulyakov D., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 114–130
Although epistemic stance in academic discourse has been extensively researched
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across disciplines, and still less about the grant proposal abstract, a genre produced under strong
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Павел Успенский, Новый мир 2026 № 5 С. 181–192
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Uspensky P., Горький 2026 № 28.05.
During the Soviet period, Vladislav Khodasevich’s poetry was not widely known, yet his poems had a significant influence on many writers, including the front-line poet Yevgeny Vinokurov. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of Khodasevich’s birth, Pavel Uspensky, Professor at the School of Philology of the Faculty of Humanities at HSE University, wrote specially ...
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М.: Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2026.
This volume brings together two novels by Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva (1820–1893), Trifles of Life (1854) and A Woman’s Lot (1862), neither of which has been republished since its first appearance. At a time of sweeping social change, Panaeva offered a unique perspective on the “woman question.” Her novels portray remarkable women whose right to happiness ...
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Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
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Павлина С. Ю., Милащенко Н. Г., Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации 2026 Т. 8 № 3 С. 40–65
Verbal and visual metaphorical and metonymic images are key instruments of political satire, enabling the concise and expressive conveyance of evaluative attitudes toward socio-political realities. However, the multi-level mechanism of creating and decoding such figurative constructs in polycode cartoon texts has not yet received a systematic account. The aim of this study is to identify ...
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Tikhomirova A., Professional Discourse & Communication 2026 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 66–84
Given China’s rise as the world’s leading automotive producer and the radical
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Fedorov D., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 134–166
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Pritula A., Leiden: Brill, 2025.
ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of the prominent East Syrian poet and churchman who lived in the 16th century. The role of ʿAḇdīšōʿ of Gazarta for East Syriac ecclesiastical poetry is significant. He was the second patriarch of the Chaldean Church and the founder of its literary tradition.
This book ...
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Pritula A., Aramaic Studies 2024 Vol. 22 No. 1 P. 74–104
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Pritula A., , in: The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies. Essays in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock.: Leiden: Brill, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 311–324.
In numerous works by Sebastian Brock, a very detailed typology of Syriac dialogue poetry has been worked out that shows also the stages of its evolution. Most of such poems (sōghīthā, pl. sōghyāthā), being strophic and used for liturgical antiphonal singing, were composed in the 4th-7th centuries. Later on, after the Arabic conquest, the Syriac ...
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Pritula A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 315–334
The present paper discusses various kinds of poetry represented in scribal paratextual parts of East Syriac manuscripts, such as introductions and colophons. In the current article, we have attempted to develop a general typology of this kind of verse pieces and to discuss the details of their transmission in diachronic scope, starting with the Mongol ...
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Pritula A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2021 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 382–392
The Syriac poetry of the 11th–14th centuries (so-called Syriac Renaissance) was studied
very purely until quite recently. One of the reasons for such indifference is a traditional
approach of the scholars, who treated this poetry as a secondary one, because of a
strong influence of the Islamic literature.
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Pritula A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2020 Vol. 16 P. 390–397
In the modern period, numerous notes appeared within the colophons that aimed to protect a Syriac manuscript from potential thieves by addressing various curses to them. Some of those curses obtained a verse form, mainly forming quatrains, the most popular and suitable genre form for various kinds of notes. The paper discusses such pieces – ...
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Pritula A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2019 Vol. 15 P. 297–320
ʿAbdīšōʿ of Gāzartā, the second patriarch (1555-1570) of the East Syriac Uniate (Chaldean)
Church, is known as a founder of its literary tradition, and an author of numerous liturgical
and non-liturgical poems. He was also active as a scribe, of whose production several
manuscripts survive that were never studied before. The present paper discusses
them, in particular the historical ...
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Pritula A., Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.
In the liturgical literature of the Church of East (the so-called Nestorian), the Wardā collection, meant for the liturgical performance at night services on the festival days and Sundays of the whole liturgical year, holds a special place. Strophic hymns – ʿōnītā (pl. ʿōnyātā) – contained in the collection are still a part of the ...
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Pritula A., Manuscripta Orientalia 2020 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 26–36
Over the course of the Syriac tradition's interaction with Islamic culture, the role of poetry became increasingly significant. It is for this reason that so‑called scribal poetry first appeared. This genre is often found alongside passages in prose and accompanied other paratextual features of the manuscript such as the colophon and marginal notes. Due to ...
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