Þe Laurer of Oure Englische Tonge Assistants to the editors: Ewa Ciszek and Łukasz Hudomięt
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2009
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783631590973
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
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Peter Lang AG
Vekt
210 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Antall sider
152
Om bidragsyterne
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, Poznań, 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, Poznań, Poland.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, 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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Contents: Simon Horobin: ‘Speaking and Writing in Suffolk Speech’: the language and dialect of Osbern Bokenham – Jerzy Wełna: 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 Kamińska-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 – Władysław 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 – Rafał Borysławski: Twist and turn: On the visual rhetoric of Old English variation – Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz: The poetics of the Gest historiale of the destruction of Troy.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783631590973
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang AG
Vekt
210 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
152
Om bidragsyterne
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, Poznań, 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, Poznań, Poland.