This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2007. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2007. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.
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Autorenporträt
The Editors: Marcin Krygier, Ph.D. in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. Liliana Sikorska, Ph.D. in 1994, D. Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Simon Horobin: 'Speaking and Writing in Suffolk Speech': the language and dialect of Osbern Bokenham - Jerzy Welna: The post-sonorant devoicing of [d] in the past/past participle forms of weak verbs (sent, spend, etc.) - Janusz Malak: The categorization of the infinitive in the Old English ACI constructions - Justyna Rogos: A synchronic approach to Old English nominal paradigms in the study of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies - Anna Kaminska-Cichosz: The use of the «Subordinate Word-Order» in Old English and Old High German - a Text-Type Dependent Comparative Analysis - Andrzej Wicher: Tolkien's indolent kings - echoes of medieval history in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Noel Harold Kaylor Jr.: The shape of Chaucerian tragedy - Wladyslaw Witalisz: «That mikel lith in Havelok» - supernatural signs of authority in Middle English romance - Anna Czarnowus: Feminine acedia in Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid - Rafal Boryslawski: Twist and turn: On the visual rhetoric of Old English variation - Bartlomiej Blaszkiewicz: The poetics of the Gest historiale of the destruction of Troy.
Contents: Simon Horobin: 'Speaking and Writing in Suffolk Speech': the language and dialect of Osbern Bokenham - Jerzy Welna: The post-sonorant devoicing of [d] in the past/past participle forms of weak verbs (sent, spend, etc.) - Janusz Malak: The categorization of the infinitive in the Old English ACI constructions - Justyna Rogos: A synchronic approach to Old English nominal paradigms in the study of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies - Anna Kaminska-Cichosz: The use of the «Subordinate Word-Order» in Old English and Old High German - a Text-Type Dependent Comparative Analysis - Andrzej Wicher: Tolkien's indolent kings - echoes of medieval history in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Noel Harold Kaylor Jr.: The shape of Chaucerian tragedy - Wladyslaw Witalisz: «That mikel lith in Havelok» - supernatural signs of authority in Middle English romance - Anna Czarnowus: Feminine acedia in Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid - Rafal Boryslawski: Twist and turn: On the visual rhetoric of Old English variation - Bartlomiej Blaszkiewicz: The poetics of the Gest historiale of the destruction of Troy.
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