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A Constructionist and Corpus-Based Approach to Formulas in Old English Poetry
LanguagesThis paper explores a constructionist and corpus-based approach to Old English formulaic language through an analysis of the “maþelode system” of speech introductions.
Riccardo Ginevra +3 more
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THE CURSUS IN OLD ENGLISH POETRY. [PDF]
Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 1914 n ...
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SELIMBook review of Coker, Matthew D. 2023. Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. 154. ISBN 9781641894128.
James Paz
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Translation as Interpretation: Ezra Pound and Old English Poetry [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2019 The paper dwells on Ezra Pound's translations of Old English poetry. The essay gives a brief outlook on Pound’s study of the Old English language during his college years, highlights the poet’s interests in a field of Old English culture. Pound’s view on
Karina R. Ibragimova
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Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5
Humanities, 2022 A sequence of Old English riddles from the Exeter Book allow an implement to speak. This article focuses on one example, Riddle 5, generally solved as either a shield or a cutting board, to show how each interpretation gives voice not just to an ...
Jonathan Wilcox
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Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction
Humanities, 2022 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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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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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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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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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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