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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview [PDF]
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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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
GlossaThis article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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SELIMBook review of Burns, Rachel A., and Rafael J. Pascual, eds. 2022. Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. xii + 281. ISBN 1802700250.
Daniel Donoghue
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Impact of Metrical Prosody on Performances [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis is about testing Frederick Turner and Ernst Pöppel\u27s claim that suggestmetrical poem tends to measure three seconds in terms of psychological limitwhen it is performed aloud.
Hiroshi Suemune (1547716) +3 more
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Paradigms and self-reference: what is the point of asserting paradoxical sentences? [PDF]
, 2020 A paradox, according to Wittgenstein, is something surprising that is taken out of its context. Thus, one way of dealing with paradoxical sentences is to imagine the missing context of use.
Mácha, Jakub
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Fragments of Boethius: The Reconstruction of the Cotton Manuscript of the Alfredian Text [PDF]
, 2005 ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot's metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. Such a concept lies at
Irvine, SE
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Gender and authority in British women hymn-writers' use of metre, 1760-1900 [PDF]
, 2009 This article is part of a cluster that draws material from the recent conference Metre Matters: New Approaches to Prosody, 1780–1914. It comprises an introduction by Jason David Hall and six articles presented at the conference, whose aim was to address ...
Cecil +12 more
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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory
SELIMIn 2016, Thomas A. Bredehoft wrote a reply to my criticism of his theory of Old English metre, according to which Ælfric's rhythmical compositions ought to be considered verse rather than prose.
Rafael J. Pascual
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Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
SELIMThe Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf exists in numerous translations into prose and verse of various forms and styles. While some translators use accentual metre and alliteration to evoke the form of the original, few attempt to reproduce its metre and ...
Elliot Vale
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