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An Ecocritical Reading of a Hero: To Be Human or Not in Beowulf

Ideas: Journal of English Literary Studies
In contemporary studies and literary works, ecocriticism is generally associated with present problems and conditions related to the interconnection between humans and nature.
İlknur Büşra ÇAKIR
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The departure of the hero in a ship: The intertextuality of Beowulf, Cynewulf and Andreas

SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature., 2019
This article identifies a new Old English poetic motif, ‘The Departure of the Hero in a Ship’, and discusses the implications of its presence in Beowulf, the signed poems of Cynewulf and Andreas, a group of texts already linked by shared lexis, imagery ...
F. Leneghan
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Tiempo de lobos, tiempo de espadas: profecía y muerte de dioses y héroes en la “Völuspá” y Beowulf

Medievalia, 2016
Tiempo de lobos, tiempo de espadas: profecía y muerte de dioses y héroes en la “Völuspá” y ...
Georgina Mejía Amador
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THE ALLEGED MURDER OF HRETHRIC IN BEOWULF

Traditio, 2019
A scenario well known to Beowulf scholars alleges that after Beowulf has slain the monsters and gone home, Hrothulf, nephew of the Danish king Hrothgar, will murder prince Hrethric to gain the throne when the old king dies.
M. Osborn
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OLD ENGLISH LEXEME BEORN IN THE GLOSSARIES AND THE TEXT OF THE POEM BEOWULF

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. The Old English poem Beowulf known to us in the manuscript of the X-XI centuries embodies the epic world picture of the Anglo-Saxons, idealized past time. With the changing of scientific paradigms, the methods of analyzing the text of Beowulf
Ekaterina A. Krupina
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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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Manuscripts Character Recognition Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Modelling, 2023
The automatic character recognition of historic documents gained more attention from scholars recently, due to the big improvements in computer vision, image processing, and digitization.
Mohammad Anwarul Islam, Ionut E. Iacob
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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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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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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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