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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Old English poetry"”.
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Constructing the Christian: Agency and Emulation in Old English Poetry
<p>Old English religious verse - born out of a productive fusion between pre-existing Germanic ideals and Christian value-systems brought to England at the end of the sixth century - grapples energetically with the question of how people ought to live morally upright lives pleasing to God. In …
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A study of compound hapax legomena in Old English poetry
… the use of a particular type of compound word in Old English poetry, the compound which is uniquely attested. Compounds, which in Old English poetry are chiefly substantival and adjectival, are especially important in context because they consist of two words that in the normal vocabulary already …
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The Allegory of War: Spiritual Warfare in Old English Poetry
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Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry
… the words concerned with trees and wood in the Old English poetic corpus. The importance of wood to the daily lives of the Anglo-Saxons and the familiarity with wood which resulted from this is shown to have extended into the vocabulary and used within the poems to develop ideas and concepts …
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A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry
… the representation of the human life course in Old English poetry. It attends to constructions of the lifespan as a durational unit, as well as the ‘stages’ or discrete age-related experiences which together form patterns for life development, shared across a diverse range of texts. Throughout …
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A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry
… Christian heroism as it appears in a number of Old English poems, through a study of the figure of the miles Christi. These poems present a specific Christian heroism which, though couched in terms culled from Germanic heroism, nevertheless exists in its own right and is quite different from it. …
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The Lemmatisation of The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Poetry with a Relational Database of Old English Dictionaries
This dissertation addresses the lemmatisation of Old English poetry, filling a crucial gap in the fields of Lexicography, corpus linguistics and Historical linguistics. To be more precise, this study aims to systematically group the attested spellings of the York-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… vitae of the Anglo-Saxon missionary saints, the Old English poetry of Cynewulf, and the anonymous poem Andreas. This study demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the experiences and the authority of the apostles to fashion Christian identities for members of the emerging English church …
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An analysis of Cynewulf's Juliana
… become accepted as a poem of some importance in Old English studies. Although both are signed poems of Cynewulf, some scholars still dismiss <i>Juliana</i> as undeserving of a detailed critical study. In fact, its latest editor has concluded: "Though it parades remnants of the old heroic style, …
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"Beowulf maþelode....": text linguistics and speech acts
… approaches to the study of the structure of Old English poetry, set forth in Bernard Huppé’s <em>Web of Words</em>, will be included in the analysis. The discussion in <em>Web of Words</em> stimulated my interest in the structure of Beowulf’s speeches, and the methods used there can be …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
Why are demonic characters so common in Old English poetry? Perhaps evil characters were, as they are today, a source of interest and intrigue; maybe they represented the fears of the Anglo-Saxons; or, it could be that these characters allowed the poets to express what would otherwise be …
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
This dissertation investigates the Old English word field for the concepts of ‘pledges’ and agreements by analysing the words belonging to the field in their contextual environments. The particular focus is on the word wedd (‘pledge’), which is shown to have different connotations in different text …
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The Matter of Gautland
… scholarship. This model has also been applied to Old Norse saga literature, particularly the fornaldarsögur, within which the ‘Matter of Hrafnista’ and the ‘Matter of Gautland’ have been identified as prominent examples. The latter cycle consists of Gautreks saga, Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and …