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Sound imitative words in Beowulf
Introduction. This article is devoted to the study of imitative (onomatopoeic and mimetic) lexicon of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The poem is, probably, the most well-known work of Anglo-Saxon literature, characterized by its archaic language as well ...
M. A. Flaksman
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Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit
Rocco Coronato, Letteratura inglese. Da Beowulf a Brexit (Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2022, 860 pp.
Beatrice Righetti
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Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 51-54, October 2023.
Holly Yanacek
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Wealhtheow’s Peace-Weaving: Diegesis and Genealogy of Gender in Beowulf
This article uses Charles S. Peirce’s concept of icon and Judith Butler’s idea of genealogy of gender to study levels of fictionality in the Old English poem Beowulf.
Olesiejko Jacek
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Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies [PDF]
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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Verschiedene Perspektiven auf räumliche und zeitliche Repräsentationen der Welt im Mittelalter
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 278-281, Spring 2023.
Gerda Brunnlechner
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The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is undoubtedly the most famous and the most studied poem written in Old English. It has been translated in several languages all over the world and though the heterogeneous panorama of English translations is unparalleled ...
Giuliano Marmora
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«Wunder æfter wundre»: Recounting the Marvellous in "Beowulf"
The Old English epic of Beowulf is characterised by several supernatural events in which the hero performs wondrous deeds. The most outstanding ability of the Prince of the Geats is to be able to fight dreadful beings such as sea-monsters, Grendel and ...
Gabriele Cocco
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Saving the “Undoomed Man” In Beowulf (572b-573)
The maxim Wyrd oft nereð // unfӕgne eorl, / þonne his ellen deah “Fate often spares an undoomed man when his courage avails” (Beowulf 572b-573) has been likened to “Fortune favors the brave,” with little attention to the word unfӕgne, which is often ...
Anderson Salena Sampson
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Przepisywanie Beowulfa: J.R.R. Tolkiena meandry przekładu
Rewriting Boewulf: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Meandering Translation J.R.R. Tolkien’s works related to translation include both translations and adaptations in the form of pastiche.
Tomasz Markiewka
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