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SELIMBook review of Lucas, Peter J. 2024. Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 58. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 9782503600314.
Mark Griffith
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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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Tearas Feollon: Tears and Weeping in Old English Literature
Humanities, 2022 This contribution surveys the range of images of weeping in Old English literature, concentrating particularly on weeping due to suffering, grief and unhappiness, and on tears of compunction, but examining other types of weeping as well, including ...
Hugh Magennis
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SELIMBook review of Griffith, Mark. 2024. The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Pp. xiv + 308. ISBN 9781835538067.
Kazutomo Karasawa
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics [PDF]
, 2013 Published Online: 2013-10-25; This content is open access.Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of ...
Jędrzejewski, Jan
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La Monstruosité du discours direct : perspective diachronique
E-REA, 2015 Syntactically, a speech represented in direct style is often interpreted as the direct object of the speech verb. This paper examines some of the oldest and most archaic English texts available to us (a group of eight Old English poems) to determine ...
Élise LOUVIOT
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Orality, Germanic Literacy and Runic Inscriptions in Anglo-Saxon England
MatLit, 2017 The presence of runic writing before the influx of Latinate literacy in Anglo-Saxon England is often neglected when investigating the transitional nature of orality and literacy in vernacular Anglo-Saxon writing.
James Daly
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“Past Master”: Czeslaw Milosz and his Impact on Seamus Heaney's Poetry [PDF]
, 2013 The essay examines the influence of Czeslaw Milosz on Seamus Heaney's writing, focusing primarily on the early 1980s, which was a period of major transition in Heaney's literary and academic career, following the success of Field Work (1979) in the USA ...
Parker, Michael Richard
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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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Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines an unpublished letter from Yeats to the ‘pitman-poet’ Joseph Skipsey, which gives new insight into the early career of Yeats and a deeper understanding of the possibilities and capabilities of the Victorian working-classes.
Tait, Gordon
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