This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Third Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland in November 2004. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from Old and Middle English semantics and word geography to Old and Middle English literature.
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Frankfurt a.M.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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978-3-631-54708-3 (9783631547083)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Editors: Martin Krygier; Ph.D. in 1993, D.Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at UCLA from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; deputy head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Liliana Sikorska; Ph.D. in 1994, D.Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and UCLA; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Contents: Michiko Ogura: Same variable features of negative elements in Old English psalter glosses - Ewa Ciszek: The development of -s(c)hip(e) in Early Middle English - Rafal Molencki: On the syntactic and semantic development of after in Medieval English - Merja Stenroos: The spread of they, their and them in English: The Late Middle English evidence - Wolfgang Viereck: Animal names and their various uses in (early) English, (early) English literature and beyond - Paul E. Szarmach: An apologia for the Meters of Boethius - Liliana Sikorska: In the labyrinth of life: St. Augstine's quest and Margery Kempe's pilgrimages - Andrzej Wicher: Chaucer's «Franklin's Tale» seen in the context of the tales about calumniated women - Wladyslaw Witalisz: On «.redoutynge of Mars and of his glorie» - Attitudes to war in Middle English romance - Joanna Bukowska: The implications of the quest motif in The avowyng of Arthur and The knightly tale of Gologras and Gawain.
