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The Forest Haven Episode: How Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Hautdesert Shaped The Lord of the Rings’ Caras Galadhon
(Oxford University Press, 2020-12-05)
J. R. R. Tolkien’s long professional involvement with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400) was at its peak during the writing of The Lord of the Rings (composed between 1937-1949, revised until c. 1954 and published ...
Addenda: One Middle English Manuscript and Four Editions of Medieval Works Known to J. R. R. Tolkien and What They Reveal
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-27)
This article proposes the addition of four items to “Section A” of Oronzo Cilli’s Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist (2019) and the inclusion of complementary information to two other entries after demonstrating J. ...
The Unpublished ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’ by C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition
(Edinburgh University Press, 2024-04)
As the title of this edition indicates, it provides a critical apparatus for a holistic understanding of this alliterative epistolary poem by C.S. Lewis, which has never appeared in print before. With this in mind, all ...
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-27)
Review of Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers.
Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit’s Mirkwood
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-08-25)
In view of Jason Fisher’s (2011) principles for a rigorous study of J. R. R. Tolkien’s sources, this paper aims to demonstrate that the relationship between Sir Orfeo (c.1330) and The Hobbit (1937) is of influence and not ...
Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-04-09)
J. R. R. Tolkien maintained an ambivalent attitude toward William Shakespeare throughout his life. As Tom Shippey succinctly affirms, Tolkien read Shakespeare’s works with both interest and disapproval. Shakespeare’s plays, ...
Introducing FURLEUS: a cross-country, cross-stage, cross-level comparison of Friulian and Basque teachers’ language attitudes and motivation in search of best practices
(Forum, 2023)
The main aim of this contribution is to introduce the FURLEUS project, whose acronym stands for FURLan (i.e., Friulian) + EUSkara (i.e., Basque) and which is funded within the Horizon 2020—Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions—European ...
What Are the Best Practices to Foster Students’ Motivation in Multilingual Schools? The Teachers’ Perspective
(Macrothink Institute, 2023-10-20)
This contribution focusses on teachers’ perspectives on ways of motivating students in multilingual education settings where a local minority language co-exists with a State majority language, English as a lingua franca ...
The Friulian language in education in Italy
(Mercator, 2024-03)
The Italian State approved Law 482/1999 to protect the many historical linguistic minorities that are present in its territory, including Friulian. Despite emphasising Italian as the official language of the Italian Republic, ...
¿Partir es un poco morir?: Representations of Migration and Mental Health in 21st Century Latina Literature
(2023-12-12)
Esta tesis doctoral analiza las representaciones de la migración y la salud mental en las siguientes obras literarias: The Distance Between Us (2012) de Reyna Grande, In the Country We Love (2016) de Diane Guerrero y My ...