Search Results - "Poetry"

Representations of the natural world in Old English poetry by Neville, Jennifer, 1968-

Subjects: “…English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism.…”
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Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin : politics and poetry in eleventh-century England / by Damico, Helen

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Beowulf the fight at Finnsburh /

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The written poem semiotic conventions from Old to modern English / by Huisman, Rosemary, 1941-

Subjects: “…English poetry 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.…”
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Lazamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance a study of the lexical fields "hero," "warrior" and "knight" / by Elsweiler, Christine

“…Layamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance…”
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The Advent lyrics of the Exeter book /

Subjects: “…English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism.…”
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Poems and prose from the Old English

Table of Contents: “…Poetry -- Prose.…”
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The Anglo-Saxon literature handbook by Amodio, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Anglo-Saxon prose -- pt. 3. Anglo-Saxon poetry -- pt. 4. Critical approaches -- pt. 5. Themes.…”
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Creation, migration, and conquest imaginary geography and sense of space in Old English literature / by Michelet, Fabienne L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : an outline of the Anglo-Saxons' sense of space -- Creation -- Ordering the world : creation narratives and spatial control -- The centres of Beowulf : a complex spatial order -- Localization and remapping : creating a new centrality for Anglo-Saxon England -- Migration -- Integrating new spaces : saint's lives and missions of conversion -- Searching for land : scriptural poetry and migration -- Conquest -- The descriptiones Britanniae and the adventus Saxonum : narratives strategies for the conquest of Britain.…”
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Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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