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Old English Poetry [PDF]

, 2010
Topics include how Old English poetry works, what the major poems are and how they were performed; what links we can draw with modern poetry and music; basic metrics and devices used for effect, and more.
Stuart Lee
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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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"Where now the harp?" Listening for the sounds of Old English verse, from Beowulf to the twentieth century [PDF]

, 2011
Additional multimedia to accompany this article is available from http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24ii/jonesThis essay examines the representation or staging of oral performance and poetic composition within Beowulf, in order to argue that poem ...
Jones, Chris
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THE CURSUS IN OLD ENGLISH POETRY. [PDF]

Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 1914
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Conceptions of place in Old English poetry [PDF]

, 2022
Previous studies of place and space in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture have tended to focus on the engagement with these phenomena as a means of understanding the world and of imposing order on it.
Brockbank, William
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What is a curriculum for life? Using youth participatory action research and applied arts to understand and amplify undergraduate students', children's and young people's mental health and wellbeing recommendations for education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022).
Lisa Stephenson, Helen Young
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Ráð Rétt Rúnar: reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry [PDF]

, 2011
Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to ráð rétt rúnar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry.
Birkett, Thomas Eric
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
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Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully

SELIM
The 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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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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