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The development of alliterative metre from Old to Middle English
, 2016 The thesis deals with the history of the alliterative long line from Old English to both early and late Middle English, and demonstrates that the differences between the metrical systems of those periods are explicable in their entirety by the historical
Yakovlev, Nicolay
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SPEAKING YOUR MIND: THE TRANSLATION OF ORALITY IN MARLEN HAUSHOFER'S PROSE
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 493-507, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article considers how features of spoken language in three of Marlen Haushofer's works, Die Tapetentür (1957), Die Wand (1963) and Die Mansarde (1969), have been translated into English. A close reading of Haushofer's prose demonstrates how she relies on carefully constructed cadences of thought to reach an intermediate point between ...
Isabel Parkinson
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, 2015 J.R.R. Tolkien produced a considerable body of poetry in which he used the traditional alliterative metre of Old Norse and Old English to write modern English verse.
Nelson Goering
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Thorlac Turville-Petre. Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Review of English Studies, The, 2019 exaly +2 more sources
Old English Poetry. Translations into Alliterative Verse with Introductions and Notes
Notes and Queries, 1922 exaly +3 more sources
Bilingual Development in the Tai‐Vietnamese Multicultural Borderland
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1402-1412, August 2025.ABSTRACT Northern Vietnam, in particular the regions along the international border, is home to a rich diversity of language communities. Important research opportunities have presented themselves in the Tai‐speaking communities in rural districts near Laos with an emphasis on the development and preservation of the Tai languages.
Thi‐Nham Le, Norbert Francis
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Quantifying Prosodic Variability in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
CoRR, 2015 Interest in the mathematical structure of poetry dates back to at least the 19th century: after retiring from his mathematics position, J. J. Sylvester wrote a book on prosody called $\textit{The Laws of Verse}$. Today there is interest in the computer analysis of poems, and this paper discusses how a statistical approach can be applied to this task ...
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THE ‘I’ OF SHAME AND RAGE: CONFESSION AND RUMINATION AT EITHER END OF A MILLENNIUM
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 394-411, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article brings together two texts that differ in numerous respects: the long poem farbe komma dunkel by Levin Westermann (2021) and a devotional text often known as the Bamberg Creed and Confession (Bamberger Glaube und Beichte), transmitted in a twelfth‐century manuscript.
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The sixth type of Germanic alliterative verse : the case of Old English Beowulf (Part 3)
, 2006 論文ARTICLEAccording to the traditional metrical analysis, a basic unit of Germanic alliterative poetry consists of two stressed positions and two unstressed positions, i.e.
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