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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Threatening as a sociocultural–conceptual communicative act
World 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
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Beowulf 1563a and Blissian Metrics
Revista Alicantina de Estudios InglesesA. 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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Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster
Journal 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
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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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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 95-109, March 2024.Abstract Epistolary periodicals associated with English coffee house culture have often been associated with Jürgen Habermas' model for the rise of the ‘bourgeois public sphere’. Habermas proposed this ultimately gave rise to the free articulation of public opinion and the emergence of democratic values.
Helen Berry
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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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New Disease Reports, Volume 52, Issue 2, October/December 2025.
H. R. Davis +10 more
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'Beowulfo', 'Geatas' and 'Heoroto': An Appraisal of the Earliest Renderings of Beowulf in Spain
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2009 Back in 1934, Beowulf entered the Spanish editorial world. Manuel Vallvé published in Barcelona a retelling of this Old English poem not intending it for scholars or professors, but rather for children.
Eugenio M. Olivares Merino
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The Beowulf manuscript reconsidered: Reading Beowulf in late Anglo-Saxon England
Literator, 2003 This article defines a hypothetical late Anglo-Saxon audience: a multi-layered Christian community with competing ideologies, dialects and mythologies. It discusses how that audience might have received the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
L. Viljoen
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