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Contextualizing the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien on Literary Criticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

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]

open access: yes, 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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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Uma ponte teórica entre o passado e o futuro do livro

open access: yesRumores, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Reversible Alignment of Nanoparticles and Intracellular Vesicles During Magnetic Hyperthermia Experiments

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, Volume 34, Issue 40, October 1, 2024.
Study of the dynamic processes that occur when the magnetic nanoparticles are exposed to an AC magnetic field in different scenarios: in colloids, in vitro (within intracellular vesicles) and simulations. Aligned structures parallel to the field when the magnetic field is on are observed and a fast disassembly of such structures occurs upon field ...
Yilian Fernández‐Afonso   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L. Risden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L.
Houghton, John
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The departure of the hero in a ship: The intertextuality of Beowulf, Cynewulf and Andreas

open access: yesSELIM. 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Threatening as a sociocultural–conceptual communicative act

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 491-502, September 2024.
Abstract The present article revisits threatening discourses from the perspectives of anthropological linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, speech act theory and pragmatics. On the basis of linguistic data from 11th‐century Britain (Old English), 14th‐century Norway (Old Norse), 19th‐century Ireland (Early Modern Irish English and Modern Irish), 20th ...
Arne Peters
wiley   +1 more source

Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 75-96, March 2024.
Abstract Since 2001, beetles have killed two‐thirds of the pine trees in British Columbia, Canada, decimating the predominant commercial tree species in one of the world's largest timber economies. Attempts to construct and circulate computer models of the infestation and its aftermaths, however, have obscured destabilizing changes across state ...
Tom Özden‐Schilling
wiley   +1 more source

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