Search for dissertations about: "Old English poetry"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Old English poetry.

  1. 1. The Politics of Tradition : Examining the History of the Old English Poems The Wife's Lament and Wulf and Eadwacer

    Author : Berit Åström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; anamorphosis; feminism; identity; literature; metaphor; metonymy; Old English; Old English literature; Old English poetry; philology; theory; tradition in literature; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English;

    Abstract : Old English literary studies is a fascinating field of research which spans many various approaches including philology and linguistics as well as literary and cultural theories. The field is characterised by a certain conservatism, what in this thesis is referred to as tradition. READ MORE

  2. 2. A unified account of the Old English metrical line

    Author : Andrew Cooper; Nils-Lennart Johannesson; Nigel Fabb; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; metrical phonology; Old English; Anglo-Saxon; syntax-phonology interface; accentual-syllabic; hypermetric; beowulf; optimality metrics; quantitative verse; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, developing an analysis which allows all OE verse lines to be described in terms of single metrical design.Old English poetry is typified by a single type of line of variable length, characterised by four metrical peaks. READ MORE

  3. 3. Enthusiasm, Contemplation, and Romantic Longing : Reconsidering Schubert's Sectional Songs in the Light of Historical Context

    Author : Tobias Lund; Musikvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johann Georg Sulzer; Johann Wötzel; Friedrich Schiller; Romanticism; Neo-Platonism; depth; free fantasia; English landscape garden; declamation; friendship; friends; interpretation; ballad; Lied; Franz Schubert; sectional song; Ossian; Johann Mayrhofer; Die Bürgschaft; Die Nacht; Liedesend.;

    Abstract : In twentieth-century music scholarship, those of Franz Schubert’s songs from the 1810s that form sectional musical structures have normally been presented as being unfortunately dependent on aesthetically disparaged eighteenth-century models. Authors have often treated these songs succinctly, preferring instead to invest their energy in the “masterworks” of Schubert’s later years. READ MORE