Search for dissertations about: "Old English"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words Old English.

  2. 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

  4. 2. Old English bynames

    Author : Gösta Tengvik; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap;

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  5. 3. Stories of Old : The Imagined West and the Crisis of Historical Symbology in the 1970s

    Author : Mattias Bolkéus Blom; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : For all the criticism that has been leveled against cultural representations of the American West, ideas of the westward expansion and its significance have remained powerful impulses for the negotiation of history and identity. Such notions of the past, and the cultural symbology with which they can be expressed, are more or less available to writers and other cultural agents for employment in political, cultural, or literary discourse. READ MORE

  6. 4. 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

  7. 5. Old English verbs in -sian : a semantic and derivational study

    Author : Lars-Gunnar Hallander; Stockholms universitet; []
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