Studies in English Language and Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Doubt Wisely
Redaktion: Toswell, M. J.; Tyler, E. M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection is in honour of E.G. Stanley. They apply Stanley's approach of 'wise scepticism' to provide new and exciting readings of difficult and rewarding fields, including Old English metre and verse and Beowulf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134773398
• Artikelnr.: 38247526

Autorenporträt

M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyler

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: On language and linguistics
1: Names will never hurt me
2: The vocabulary of very late Old English
3: Late copies of Anglo-Saxon charters
4: Reasonable doubt, reasoned choice
5: Alexander Ellis and the virtues of doubt
6: About the evolution of Standard English
2: On words and phrases
7: Grendel's arm and the law
8: Does wyrd bið ful ard mean Tate is wholly inexorable'?
9: Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720
10: The sword mightier than the pen?
11: Metrical stress on alliterating finite verbs in clause-initial a-verses
12: Old English habban+ past participle of a verb of motion
3: On the interpretation of a single text
13: Doubt and time in La3amon's Brut
14: Unscholarly Latinity and Margery Kempe
15: Doubts about Medea, Briseyda, and Helen
16: Woman-kenitings in the G?sla saga Súrssonar
17: 'Symtyme the fende'
18: Medieval 'allegorical imagery' in c. 1630
4: On taxonomies, genres, and sources
19: The swallow's nest and the spider's web
20: The idea of the 'Christian epic'
21: Ælfric's sources reconsidered
22: Ulysses and Circe in King Alfred's Boethius
23: Poetic inspiration and prosaic translation
24: The metre of the Ormulum
5: On Assumptions
25: Textual boundaries in Anglo-Saxon works on time (and in some Old English poems)
26: Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the discovery of the individual in Old English verse
27: St Æthelthryth
28: Tacitus, Old English heroic poetry, and ethnographic preconceptions
29: How deliberate is deliberate verbal repetition?