The Bell and the Drum
The Bell and the Drum

Author: C. H. Wang

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0520322061

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader
Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-11-06

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780521227568

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A yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association asserting that comparative literary studies represent a major direction forwards.

Old English
Old English

Author: Laurel Brinton

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3110523051

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The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.

The Lyric Speakers of Old English Poetry
The Lyric Speakers of Old English Poetry

Author: Lois Bragg

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780838634035

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This work is a treatment of over thirty Old English lyrics including prayers, riddles, charms, the epilogues to Cynewulf's four signed poems, lyric interludes from Beowulf, and poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Studies in English Language & Literature
Studies in English Language & Literature

Author: Eric Gerald Stanley

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780415138482

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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.

Marketing English Books, 1476-1550
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550

Author: Alexandra da Costa

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0198847580

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Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.

Records of Real People
Records of Real People

Author: Merja Stenroos

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9027260486

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English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds. However, as relatively few documents have been available digitally or in print, they have been an underresearched resource. This volume shows the tremendous potential of late- and post-medieval English local documents: highly variable in language, often colourful, including developing formulae as well as glimpses of actual recorded speech. The volume contains eleven chapters relating to a new resource, A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD). The first four chapters outline a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of local documents. The remaining seven present studies of different aspects of the material, including supralocalization, local patterns of spelling and morphology, land terminology, punctuation, formulaicness and multilingualism.