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Synonymy and rank in alliterative poetry
Sign Systems Studies, 2012 This paper addresses the high sonic demands of alliterative metres, and the consequences of these demands for sense: the semantic stretching of common words and the deployment of uncommon (archaic, 'poetic') words.
Jonathan Roper
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Listening to Limericks: a pupillometry investigation of perceivers' expectancy. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2013 What features of a poem make it captivating, and which cognitive mechanisms are sensitive to these features? We addressed these questions experimentally by measuring pupillary responses of 40 participants who listened to a series of Limericks.
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the first in a three-part series or tryptic that argues for the Old Germanic origins of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter. This meter requires rhymes on the stressed syllables of two words within a six-position line, irrespective of ...
Frog
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Old english poetic paraphrases of the song of the three youths from the poems Daniel and Azarias [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 The paper contains the translations of the two Old English poetic paraphrases of the Song of the Three Youths, preserved in the poems Daniel and Azarias. The translation follows the principle of equilinearity.
Maria Yatsenko
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2023 This paper is the second in a three-part series on the distinctive type of rhyme in the Old Norse dróttkvætt meter, argued to have emerged through the metricalization of uses of rhyme within a short line found across Old Germanic poetries.
Frog
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"It may be verifyit that thy wit is thin" : Interpreting older Scots flyting through hip hop aesthetics [PDF]
, 2014 The extinct tradition of Scottish flyting bears a striking resemblance to American Hip Hop battle rap, a modern day manifestation of poetic invective that developed in the late 1970s among African-American youths in New York City.2 Adam Bradley (2009 ...
Flynn, Caitlin, Mitchell, Christy
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Recognising Intertextuality in the Digital Corpus of Finnic Oral Poetry
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 While digital corpora have enabled new perspectives into the variation and continuums of human communication, they often pose problems related to implicit biases of the data and the limited reach of current methods in recognising similarity in ...
Kati Kallio +3 more
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English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History [PDF]
, 2016 English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth
Eric Weiskott
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Alliteration in Modern and Middle English: “Piers Plowman”
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 William Langland’s 8000-line fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman uses an alliterative rhyme scheme inherited from Old English in which, instead of a rhyme at the end of a line, at least three out of the four stressed syllables in each line begin with ...
Peter Sutton
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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]
, 2018 As in other early language traditions, premodern English poetry was written out with very light punctuation. The sparsity of manuscript punctuation appears especially problematic in the period before 1200, when poetry in English lacked visual linebreaks.
Eric Weiskott
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