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"Where now the harp?" Listening for the sounds of Old English verse, from Beowulf to the twentieth century [PDF]

, 2011
Additional multimedia to accompany this article is available from http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24ii/jonesThis essay examines the representation or staging of oral performance and poetic composition within Beowulf, in order to argue that poem ...
Jones, Chris
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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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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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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
According to Hrothgar’s account of Grendel’s mere, every night one can see there fȳr on flōde, a phrase often translated as ‘fire on the water’. This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by ...
Rafael Pascual
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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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A Contemporary Voice Revisits the Past: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf [PDF]

Estudios Irlandeses, 2007
Heaney’s controversial translation of Beowulf shows characteristics that make it look like an original work: in particular, the presence of Hiberno-English words and some unexpected structural features such as the use of italics, notes and running titles.
Silvia Geremia
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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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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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Beowulf [PDF]

The Modern Language Review, 1911
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Thomas, P. G., Sedgefield, W. J.
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