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The expression of emotional distress in Old English prose and verse
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1995The Old English elegies and Alfred's translation of De Consolatione Philosophiae were examined for the presence of abstract nouns denoting adverse mood states. Large numbers of these nouns were discovered and grouped into five categories. This counters the arguments of those who believe the Anglo-Saxons expressed negative emotions chiefly in somatic ...
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Formulaic language in Old English prose
Journal of Historical PragmaticsAbstract Although there has been a plethora of research on formulaic language in contemporary English, conducted with various purposes in mind (descriptive, applied and otherwise), studies of formulaic phrasings in Old English texts are rare. In this paper, we employ selected corpus linguistic methods to identify and explore the use and discoursal ...
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“Slipping” in Old English Narrative and Legislative Prose
Studia Neophilologica, 2007The sudden changes from dependent to non‐dependent discourse, or vice versa, in a single speech‐act are often referred to in the literature as “slipping”. The Old English texts most often discussed in connection with slipping are the Cynewulf and Cyneheard interpolation in the Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle 755 (Wrenn 1940–1: 212), the Ohthere and Wulfstan ...
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Poetic Words in Late Old English Prose
1994Abstract Theorists since Isocrates have tried to epigrammatize the essential difference between poetry and prose. Prose is bread, sweet new wine, a stately walker; poetry is a wreath of flowers, heady mead, a swift runner.’ Prose is conceptual, intellectual, judicious, informative; verse is imagistic, emotional, playful, attitudinal ...
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Ælfric's Rhythmical Prose and the Study of Old English Metre
English Studies, 2014A decade ago, Thomas A. Bredehoft designed a new theory of Old English metre that classified AElfric of Eynsham's rhythmical-alliterative texts as verse. The present article submits Bredehoft's metrical theory to critical scrutiny by means of three case studies.
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La Prosa Anglosassone / Old English Prose
2013Old English Prose is the fifth issue of the journal Germanic Philology, sponsored by the Italian Association of Germamic Philology (AIFG) and edited by P. Lendinara, C. Di Sciacca, J. Hill, L. Lazzari, and L. Vezzosi. The multifaceted volume consists of eleven original contributions by both established scholars and emerging Anglo-Saxonists, ranging ...
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