Bed-trick and forced marriages. Shakespeare’s distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure by Frédérique Fouassier

“…The marriage bed to which couples withdraw at the end of romantic comedies here takes the shape of the morally puzzling bed-trick, and marriage itself, which is conventionally the emblem of fulfilment and embodies a promise of happiness and harmony, is marked with negative connotations. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. …”
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‛Other Books Like Rebecca? Are There Any?’: The Singular Fate of a Novel by Xavier Lachazette

“…Daphne Du Maurier’s international bestseller, Rebecca, has always puzzled readers, reviewers, and critics alike. Often hard put to define why the novel has them in its thrall and what genre or category it can be said to fall under, they resort to explanations which are both numerically impressive and strikingly contradictory. …”
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Pater’s Poikilia — auto-références, métaphores et impressions dans Platon et le platonisme (1893) by Jean-Baptiste Picy

“…Building on William Shuter’s 1997 challenge to this traditional view, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate Pater’s unchanged attitudes and assign a positive value to his difficult, puzzling but eventually coherent use of imagery and inter-textual self-reference. …”
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Illusion in Du Châtelet's Theory of Happiness

“…This theory of passionate misrepresentation to Du Châtelet promises to solve a number of puzzles about illusion that arise in the Discourse. …”
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Can Literature Know Itself and Not Become Philosophy? by Ralph M. Berry

“…Before puzzling over some possible conjunction between literature and philosophy, one has to agree on what such concepts mean. …”
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Judicial Lawfare: Analysis of Legal Arguments against Abortion Rights in Peruvian Courts by Camila Gianella, Brenda Álvarez

“…Abstract This article analyzes the puzzling case of Peru, a country highlighted as an example of the internationalization of sexual and reproductive health and rights norms through supranational litigation, but where these legal victories have not prompted an expansion of abortion rights. …”
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Fiction ou réalité : Les biographies de Constance Fenimore Woolson by Jeannine Hayat

“…Contemporary novelists like David Lodge, Colm Toibin or Emma Tennant are puzzled by her relationship with Henry James.…”
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Merwin’s Prose Poetry: Collective Memory in Uncanny Short Fiction by Françoise Palleau-Papin

“…Using syntax and repetition to suggest the repressed in prose poetry, and borrowing from several literary traditions such as a revised allegorical storytelling, Merwin emphasizes the memory loss by giving it a puzzling form. In so doing, he manages to invite readers to connect the pieces of an unsettling world to make sense of the irretrievable, in a joint effort to read the loss as collective rather than personal.…”
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Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro) by Bacci Michele

“…Nevertheless, the art-historical debate has been mostly puzzled by the melange, Latin-Byzantine character of the painted images, which has been explained as an outcome of the Union of the Orthodox and Roman churches declared at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438-1439. …”
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Le touriste et le voyageur dans A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841) d’Elizabeth Rigby by Stéphanie GOURDON

“…Although Elizabeth Rigby herself decided she would visit her sisters in Estonia, she was puzzled by the number of travellers from Western Europe exploring these areas. …”
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Mechanical Behavior and Impact Resistance Tendency of Coal Mass with Different Water Content by Fei Liu, Yongsheng Han

“…At the same time, as one of the puzzles of rock mechanics, it has been perplexing many domestic and foreign scholars since the recorded rock burst in South Stafford coal mine in 1738. …”
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À l’intérieur des images by Joséphine Alida Jacquier

“…The following essay should show that it is the symbolical way of thinking that connects the science of the great German mythologist and the puzzling text of Flaubert. The characteristics that according to Creuzer constitute the symbol – suddenness, appearance and clarity – structure not only Flaubertʼs descriptions of hallucinations and artistic visions, but also reveal themselves as essential elements of the epiphanean défilé of the gods. …”
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The Process‐Oriented Understanding on the Reduced Double‐ITCZ Bias in the High‐Resolution CESM1 by Enze Dong, Fengfei Song, Lixin Wu, Lu Dong, Shengpeng Wang, Fukai Liu, Hong Wang

“…Abstract The double‐Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bias is a common model bias, which has puzzled the climate model community for several decades. …”
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Maxillary Sinus Natural Killer/T-Cell Extranodal Lymphoma Mimicking a Dentoalveolar Abscess by Erika Antonia dos Anjos Ramos, Luciana Munhoz, Basílio Almeida Milani, Tomás Zecchini Barrese, Stephanie Kenig Viveiros, Emiko Saito Arita

“…This case is an example that the rare T-cell lymphoma can mimic an odontogenic lesion, thus puzzling the clinician. Fortunately, the rapid growth of the lesion prompted the correct diagnosis and early treatment.…”
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Collider imprint of vector-like leptons in light of anomalous magnetic moment and neutrino data by Parham Dehghani, Mariana Frank, Benjamin Fuks

“…Abstract We investigate the impact of incorporating vector-like leptons into the Standard Model, aiming to address longstanding puzzles related to the anomalous magnetic moments of the muon and electron while maintaining consistency with neutrino masses and mixings. …”
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Do Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Affect Bone Healing? A Critical Analysis by Ippokratis Pountos, Theodora Georgouli, Giorgio M. Calori, Peter V. Giannoudis

“…Although their analgesic potency is well proven, clinicians remain puzzled over the potential safety issues. We have systematically reviewed the available literature, analyzing and presenting the available in vitro animal and clinical studies on this field. …”
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M. Walker. Branching Is Not a Bug; It’s a Feature: Personal Identity and Legal (and Moral) Responsibility / trans. from Engl. V. A. Pilipenko by V. A. Pilipenko

“…In contrast, I offer an account of personal identity that permits branching using the type/token distinction to help with such puzzling cases.…”
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The effect of Mythological Allusion on the Expression of Mystical Experiences (Based on the Conference of the Birds of Attar) by Tamanna Golbabaei, Mohammad Gholamrezaei, Ahmad Khatami, Roghiyeh Sadraie

“…In other words, the purpose of this paper is to focus on myths and allusion in the form of puzzles and symbols understood and interpreted in the light of a kind of emotions and intuitions of the mystical and inner life, as well as the transformation of myth to mysticism and the transition of its elements and signs from epics historical and national episodes of mystical and spiritual ones.…”
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A climatically significant abiotic mechanism driving carbon loss and nitrogen limitation in peat bogs by Alexandra B. Cory, Rachel M. Wilson, M. Elizabeth Holmes, William J. Riley, Yueh-Fen Li, Malak M. Tfaily, Sarah C. Bagby, Isogenie Field Team, EMERGE Project Coordinators, Patrick M. Crill, Jessica G. Ernakovich, Virginia I. Rich, Jeffrey P. Chanton

“…Abstract Sphagnum-dominated bogs are climatically impactful systems that exhibit two puzzling characteristics: CO2:CH4 ratios are greater than those predicted by electron balance models and C decomposition rates are enigmatically slow. …”
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