Results 21 to 30 of about 352,935 (211)

From Youth to Age through Old English Poetry (with Old Norse Parallels)

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001
It has been argued that the most pre-eminent age of man among the Anglo-Saxons was senectus. This view is based on the fact that many contemporary texts emphasize the wisdom associated with age while ignoring the physical deterioration that it involves.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
doaj   +1 more source

The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
core   +1 more source

Asceticism in Old English and Syriac Soul and Body Narratives

Humanities, 2020
A great deal of scholarship on Old English soul-body poetry centers on whether or not the presence of dualist elements in the poems are unorthodox in their implication that the body, as a material object, is not only wicked but seems to possess more ...
Katayoun Torabi
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

A Corpus-Based Approach to the Lemmatisation of Old English Superlative Adverbs

Journal of English Studies, 2021
The aim of this article is to discuss the lemmatisation process of Old English adverbs inflected for the superlative from a corpus-based perspective.
Yosra Hamdoun Bghiyel
doaj   +1 more source

A Study of the Alfredian verse prefaces and epilogues

Filologia Germanica
This study takes into account the verse prefaces and epilogues associated with the translations of the Alfredian age, approaching them from a metrical standpoint.
CLAUDIO CATALDI
doaj   +1 more source

Peaceful Alliances: The Collocative Policy of friþ- in Old Germanic Poetry

Rhesis
This article examines the collocative behaviour of the Old English term friþ- ‘peace’, ‘protection’, and its Old Saxon and Old Norse cognates across the poetic traditions preserved in these languages. Building on the methodological framework established
Veronka Szoke
doaj   +1 more source

Creativity, Translation, and Teaching Old English Poetry [PDF]

Translation and Literature, 2016
This article explores the benefits to undergraduate learning, and the broader critical significance of, the ‘creative translation’ of Old English literature. First-year students of English language and literature at Oxford University were encouraged to inhabit and understand poetic texts by producing creative, free modern versions that responded to ...
Brookman, Helen, Robinson, Olivia
openaire   +3 more sources

An Unseen Eighth Rune: Runic Legacy and Multiliteral Performativity in Cynewulf’s The Fates of the Apostles

Humanities, 2021
The four Old English poems containing the runic Cyn(e)wulf ‘signature’ have continuously provoked debate as to the characters’ intratextual function and proper interpretation.
Jacob Wayne Runner
doaj   +1 more source

Mixing pleasure and beauty: positive aesthetic experience in Old English poetry

Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article analyses 23 different lexical items in Old English denoting positive aesthetic emotion, more specifically, related to the expression of appearance, moral qualities, and personal pleasant experience with the aim of gaining a better ...
Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez
doaj   +1 more source