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Fairies in medieval romance

by Wade, James

fromNew Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

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This text constructs a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts.

Living death in medieval French and English literature

by Gilbert, Jane

fromCambridge studies in medieval literature

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"Medieval literature contains many figures caught at the interface between life and death - the dead return to place demands on the living, while the living foresee, organize or desire their own deaths. Jane Gilbert's original study examines the ways in which certain medieval li…

Reading literature historically: drama and poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation

by Walker, Greg

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"How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of …

Analysing older English

by Denison, David

fromStudies in English language

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"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretat…

Code-Switching in Early English

by Wright, Laura, Schendl, Herbert, Schendl, Herbert

fromTopics in English linguistics

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The frequent mixing of different languages in early English texts, especially Latin, English and French, has been neglected by historical English linguistics. The contributions in this volume approach this phenomenon within the framework of code-switching theory and, based on a …

Cultural reformations: medieval and Renaissance in literary history

by Simpson, James, Cummings, Brian

fromOxford twenty-first century approaches to literature

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The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the medieval and the early modern. 'Cultural Reformations' initiates discussion on many fronts in which both periods look different in dialogue with each other.

Cultural reformations: medieval and Renaissance in literary history

by Simpson, James, Cummings, Brian

fromOxford twenty-first century approaches to literature

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The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the medieval and the early modern. 'Cultural Reformations' initiates discussion on many fronts in which both periods look different in dialogue with each other.

Fashioning change: the trope of clothing in high- and late-medieval …

by Denny-Brown, Andrea

fromInterventions : new studies in medieval culture

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"Medieval European culture was obsessed with clothing. In Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England, Andrea Denny-Brown explores the central impact of clothing in medieval ideas about impermanence and the ethical stakes of human transience. Stud…

Written reliquaries: the resonance of orality in medieval English texts

by Arnovick, Leslie K.

fromPragmatics & beyond

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"Written Reliquaries: The Resonance of Orality in Medieval English Texts establishes the linguistic component of orality and oral tradition. The relics it examines are traces of spoken performance, artifacts of linguistic and cultural processes. Seven case studies animate verbal…