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Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo

Between, 2011
As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door.
Francesco Giusti
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric variations that largely determine the metrical identities of the Old English Beowulf, the Old Saxon Heliand, and Old Norse eddic poetry (composed in ...
Seiichi Suzuki
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Tolkien, Eucatastrophe, and the Re-Creation of Medieval Legend [PDF]

, 2017
Using comparative literary analysis, this essay examines three case studies from J.R.R. Tolkien’s oeuvre, in which Tolkien practiced eucatastrophic rewriting: his folk-tale, “Sellic Spell,” in which he re-creates the Old English poem Beowulf; his poem ...
Beal, Jane, PhD
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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Contextualizing the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien on Literary Criticism [PDF]

, 2015
This essay offers a reinterpretation of Tolkien\u27s writings about literary criticism, which are focused on Beowulf, fairy stories, and his own works. Whereas his writings have often been taken to mean that analytic scholarship is not valid and should ...
Branchaw, Sherrylyn
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.
This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
A. J. Bliss, in his authoritative and influential monograph on The Metre of Beowulf (1967), analysed l. 1563a, hē ġefēng þā fetelhilt, as a member of his group (4) of verses beginning with finite verbs.
Rafael Pascual
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A scalable application server on Beowulf clusters : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Information Science at Albany, Auckland, Massey University, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2005
Application performance and scalability of a large distributed multi-tiered application is a core requirement for most of today's critical business applications.
Zhou, Michael Zhiyong
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Uma ponte teórica entre o passado e o futuro do livro

Rumores, 2015
Resenha do livro BREDEHOFT, Thomas A. The visible text: textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
André Carlos Moraes
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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