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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thick as Trees: Kinship and Place in Transatlantic Small Press Poetry Networks [PDF]
, 2013 Cet article examine le rôle que jouent les maisons d’édition de poésie dans le travail et la réception de plusieurs poètes américains, écossais et britanniques : Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roy Fisher et Stuart Mills.
Hair, Ross
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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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