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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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The etymology of 'rime' in the Ormulum
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2004 Standard reference works have regarded the word rime in the Middle English Ormulum as a French loanword meaning 'metre'. In this article, it will be argued that this interpretation of rime, as well as the accompanying etymology, are erroneous; it is ...
Nils-Lennart Johannesson
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview
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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Is literary language a development of ordinary language? [PDF]
, 2010 Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language.
Fabb, Nigel
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The Form and Style of Gnomic Hypermetrics
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 Gnomic poems have often been noted for their unusual metrical style. One aspect of their style that stands out is the hypermetric usage, both because these poems contain a notably high incidence of hypermetric verses and because the verses are frequently
Megan E. Hartman
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Alliterative metre and Medieval English literary history [PDF]
, 2018 The years 2016 and 2017 have respectively witnessed the publication of two stimulating Cambridge University Press monographs on medieval English literary history: Eric Weiskott’s English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016 ...
Pascual, Rafael J.
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Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Chemotherapy‐Associated Biological Aging in Women With Early Breast Cancer
Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.Women threated with adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer have sustained long‐term increase in p16INK4a,, a robust marker of cell senescence, suggesting a chemotherapy‐associated age acceleration. p16INK4a as well as other biomarkers may identify patients at greatest risk for senescence‐related diseases of aging.
Hyman B. Muss +12 more
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Old English Poetry and Its Legacy [PDF]
, 2023 This collection focuses on the legacy of Old English poetry and includes new interpretations of works such as Exeter Book Riddle 5, which provides an enduring legacy of social critique crafted through humor; the three manuscripts that contain the Solomon
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that multijoint osteoarthritis would modify the relation between time and frailty progression, in which more affected joints would lead to larger declines over six years compared to those without osteoarthritis using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
Carson Halliwell +2 more
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