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Ráð Rétt Rúnar: reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry

Autor: Birkett, T

Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to ráð rétt rúnar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry. The first chapter looks

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Spatial dialectics: poetic technique and the landscape of old English verse

Autor: Thomas, D

This thesis examines the role of spatial representation in Old English poetry. Focusing on the presentation of setting and spatial relationships in narrative poetry, it argues that sensibility towards the creative potential of spatial representation

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Colour in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

Autor: Kay, C, Alexander, M

Following 44 years of intensive work at Glasgow University and elsewhere, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) was published by OUP in October 2009. Based largely on data from the second edition of the Oxford English Dict

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'Exile-and-return' in medieval vernacular texts of England and Spain 1170-1250

Autor: Worth, B

The motif of 'exile-and-return' is found in works from a wide range of periods and linguistic traditions. The standard narrative pattern depicts the return of wrongfully exiled heroes or peoples to their former abode or their establishment of a super

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Toying with the book: children’s literature, novelty formats, and the material book, 1810–1914

Autor: Field, H, Field, Hannah

This thesis examines the book in the nineteenth century by way of an unusual corpus: movable and novelty books for children, drawn from the Opie Collection of Children’s Literature at the Bodleian Library. It argues that these items, which have bee

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Review: Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice. A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles’ The Magus

Autor: Wynne, M

Book review of Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice. A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles’ The Magus. Yufang Ho. London/New York: Continuum, 2011. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-8264- 26178. £75 (hardback).

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The processing of conversion in English : morphological complexity and underspecification

Autor: Darby, J

This thesis investigates a subset of the lexical items which appear to be involved in the phenomenon of conversion in English. In its most canonical form, conversion involves pairs or sets of word forms which share both their phonological (and orthog

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