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Rethinking the Metre of Parzival: Iambic Verse for a Trochaic Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 91-116, March 2023., 2023 Abstract The Middle High German (MHG) prosodic foot is uncontroversially considered to be trochaic, a fact which has traditionally led scholars to assume a preference for trochaic metre in poetry of the MHG Classical Period. However, given the trend elsewhere in mediaeval Europe (even in trochaic languages) to emulate French lyrics and compose verse in
Joshua J. Booth
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022 The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight instantly gained unreserved scholarly admiration when it was first published, in a Middle English version, in 1839.
Elena CIOBANU
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Mary, «Pearl», and Sir John Stanley (d. 1414)
Memoria y Civilización, 2023 Pearl is a Middle English dream-poem in London, British Library, ms Cotton Nero A.x, of about 1400. It is attributed to the same author as the scriptural poems Patience and Cleanness and the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight also found in this ...
Andrew Breeze
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The Feminine Other: Monsters and Magic in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
J-Lalite, 2021 Monsters are perceived as humanity’s enemy that should be eradicated. However, based on Jeffrey Cohen’s Monster Theory (1997), monsters play an important role in understanding humanity’s fears and anxieties.
Hana Ghani
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Interlitteraria, 2013 Tête à Tête. Observations about the “Beheading Game” in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and other Medieval Romances. In this article, I will re-examine some observations arising from the confrontation between the sequences of the “beheading game” in Sir ...
Susana G. Artal
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"The taint of a fault" : purgatory, relativism and humanism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2004 Far from being a poem about the chivalric code, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is essentially concerned with religion. The Romance genre is used to reveal the shortcomings of the Church in the late fourteenth century, just as it begins to feel the first
Phillips, Bill
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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," canonicity, and audience participation
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019 One of the pervading threads in fandom studies is the metadiscursive tendency within fan works through which audience members engage with media in creative ways that frequently challenge the limited scope of the available canon.
Angela L. Florschuetz
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Helmbrecht’s Cap and its Meta-Literary Hints
Open Journal of Humanities, 2023 Meier Helmbrecht by the poet Wernher der Gartenære is considered an example of Middle High German poem whose characters are situated in the world of the peasants.
Donata Bulotta
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Contemporary Cultural-Social Approaches in Non-Formal Education: Three Representative Examples from the Fields of Medieval Literature, Theatre of the Absurd, and Modern Cinema [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2019 Contemporary Cultural-Social Approaches in non-Formal Education is an interesting as well as intriguing area for modern researches in the context of Education, Culture, and Society. The arts, literature, new technologies, pop culture, theatre, cinema and
Paraskevi Chourdaki
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Gawain de Harrison Birtwistle : un opéra (extra-) national ?
Revue LISA, 2006 This article deals with Harrison Birtwistle’s opera Gawain (1991). Written on a libretto by the English poet, David Harsent, Gawain is characterized both by national and extra-national elements.
Jean-Philippe Heberlé
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