New Old English : The place of Old English in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry [PDF]
This article begins by noting that the narrative coherence of literary history as a genre, and the inclusions and exclusions that it is forced to make, depend on the often unacknowledged metaphors that attend its practice.
Chris Jones, Jones, Chris
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Concepts of masculinity in 'The Wife's Lament' and its critical literature [PDF]
The new men’s studies can be seen as a critical interrogation of unitary concepts of masculinity. Particularly gay men have been quick to point out that restrictive notions of what it means to be a man not only affect women in negative ways, but also gay
Schweighauser, Philipp +1 more
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Semantic inheritance in the lexical paradigms of Old English Strong Verbs: The case of "Weaxan" [PDF]
This work presents a semantic examination of the Old English lexical paradigms based onstrong verbs. Its aim is two-fold: to offer an innovative and systematized methodology forthe analysis; and to describe the patterns of semantic derivation found in ...
Fidalgo Allo, Luisa
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
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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Analysing affixal entries in Old English lexicographical sources: problems and solutions [PDF]
This paper seeks to examine how affixal entries are organized in the main Old Englishdictionaries, inlcuding An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Bosworth and Toller (1973), A ConciseAnglo-Saxon Dictionary by Clark-Hall (1996), The Student’s Dictionary of Anglo ...
Vea Escarza, Raquel +1 more
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The problem of Cross-dressing in Ælfric’s Life of St Eugenia [PDF]
Ælfric of Eynsham’s Life of St Eugenia is an account of a holy cross-dresser’s life who infiltrates and eventually heads a patriarchal community of monks in the vicinity of Alexandria and, following the exposure of her real sex, establishes a community ...
Jacek Olesiejko
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Research into Artistic Images within Linguistic Imagology
The article offers a review of the monograph by O. V. Tomberg “Image. Value. Culture. Linguo-axiological aspects of research into artistic images of Old English literature” (Ekaterinburg, 2019). The monograph aims at working out a methodological approach
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Old English genitive deverbal nominalisations with verbs of inaction. An RRG-based study [PDF]
This paper deals with Old English derived nouns that entail a verbal predication. Morespecifically, it aims at analysing the role of deverbal nominalisations in the genitive on asemantic and syntactic basis.
Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira [0000-0001-5356-7391] +1 more
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Identities in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf
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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Doing voices: reading language as craft in black British poetry [PDF]
This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature published online 14 April 2014 DOI:10.1177/0021989414529121.
GILMOUR, RH
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