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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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New Verse Translations of Old English Poetry into Spanish
Atlantis, 2020 Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre
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Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice
Filologia GermanicaOld English prose and poetry show a great variety of relativizing constructions which have traditionally been interpreted as a sign of an ongoing change in Old English syntax.
Letizia Vezzosi
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Symmetric and asymmetric relations, and the aesthetics of form in poetic language [PDF]
, 2009 This article asks how the properties of symmetry and asymmetry, as aesthetic properties, are realized in literary language. I will argue that language makes available many kinds of asymmetry, and that the asymmetry often holds between two elements which ...
Fabb, Nigel
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Exeter Book Riddles 48 and 59: Trautmann’s “Inscribed Ring”
Studia Anglica PosnaniensiaMoritz Trautmann, in his 1915 edition of the Exeter Book Riddles, proposed the solution: “Inscribed Ring” to both Riddles 48 and 59; but his arguments have been largely ignored by subsequent editors and commentators, most of whom prefer the older ...
Orton Peter
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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