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The Status of Old English Dare Revisited
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017 The development of dare in the history of English has played an important role in the literature on grammatical change and (de)grammaticalization. This paper aims to clarify two issues regarding the syntax and semantics of dare in earlier English: when ...
Gregersen Sune
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
Humanities, 2022 The scholarly reception history of the Old English riddles and adjacent “enigmatic poems” of the Exeter Book reveals a long process of creating intelligibility and order out of a complicated and obscure manuscript context.
Patrick Joseph Murphy
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Oral-Formulaic Research in Old English Studies: II [PDF]
, 1988 A member of the English department at the University of Denver, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen has written widely on Old and Middle English literature, particularly on their roots in oral tradition and in Latin ...
Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey
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Identities in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf
The Grove, 2020 The present article sets out to prove the hypothesis that the Modern English translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney reflects his Irish political and cultural roots.
Eleonora Nakova Katileva
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Man and Landscape in Old English Literature [PDF]
, 2016 The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between man and landscape in Old Eng¬lish literature starting from the assumption that, during the Middle Ages, landscape was not merely a physical space, but it was rather a complex dimension ...
Ramazzina, Elisa
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Relative clauses in English-Mandarin bilingual children: Language transfer and development in Singapore [PDF]
, 2017 The role of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children’s development remains a matter of debate. Some researchers have proposed that simultaneously bilingual learners develop the linguistic systems of two languages in the same way as matched ...
Matthews, SJ, Yan, J
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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The Grendelkin and the Politics of Succession at Heorot: The Significance of Monsters in Beowulf
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2018 The article considers the significance of the Grendelkin as monsters, bringing to attention the Isidorian understanding of the monster as a sign, portent, and admonition.
Olesiejko Jacek
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At the Edge of the World. Geographical Location, Englishness and Monstrosity
Lea, 2023 Monstrosity is a constant presence in Old English literature. In particular, Wonders of the East depicts everything that was perceived as strange, significantly located in the East, displaying a Mediterranean-centric perspective where Europe works as the
Jasmine Bria
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