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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The practice of burying objects with the dead is often claimed as some of the earliest evidence for religion, on the assumption that such “grave goods” were intended for the decedents’ use in the afterlife. However, this assumption is largely speculative, as the underlying motivations for grave‐good practices across time and place remain ...
Thomas Swan +3 more
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FUNCTIONAL NAMES IN “BEOWULF”: AN ANALYSIS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2019 Functional Names in Beowulf: An Analysis. Proper names lose their connection with the initial referent of the word, being devoid of their character of semantic predicates.
Mihaela BUZEC
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Hygelac's only daughter: a present, a potentate and a peaceweaver in Beowulf [PDF]
, 2006 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] The women of Beowulf have enjoyed extensive study in recent years, but one has escaped the limelight: the only daughter of Hygelac, king of the Geats and Beowulf’s lord.
Hall, Alaric
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Rethinking the Metre of Parzival: Iambic Verse for a Trochaic Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 91-116, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The Middle High German (MHG) prosodic foot is uncontroversially considered to be trochaic, a fact which has traditionally led scholars to assume a preference for trochaic metre in poetry of the MHG Classical Period. However, given the trend elsewhere in mediaeval Europe (even in trochaic languages) to emulate French lyrics and compose verse in
Joshua J. Booth
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Whose Beowulf is it anyway? Review of Electronic Beowulf [CD-Rom]
Internet Archaeology, 2001 'Beowulf? .... that's by Seamus Heaney. Sorry we're sold out.' It is hardly surprising that Heaney's new translation of Beowulf should seem like a completely new work. It has been a very long time since Grendel's mother was on the archaeology reading
William Kilbride
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Writing in a Pre-Christian Mode: Boethius, Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, and Till We Have Faces
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022 In this essay, I compare and contrast how Boethius (in Consolation of Philosophy), the author of Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien (in The Lord of the Rings), and C. S.
Markos Louis
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Thorkelin y el Beowulf / Thorkelin and Beowulf [PDF]
, 2017 An edition and translation of an unpublished essay by Jorge Luis Borges on the modern rediscovery of the Beowulf manuscript.
Joseph Stadolnik
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 14, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Mendip Hills (Somerset, UK) boasts its pastoral landscape, but are also vulnerable to sea level rise and flooding due to climate change. Abstract Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli‐fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub‐genre of ecopoetry which
Chao Xie
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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