þE Comoun Peplis Language: Assistants to the Editors: Ewa Ciszek and Katarzyna Bronk

ISBN-13: 9783631599594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 156 str.

Krygier, Marcin

Opis

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2008. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature: from language contact and Middle English syntax to manuscript editing and from Old English poetry to Middle English religious and secular literature.

Spis treści

Contents: Ronald Kim: On the prehistory of Old English dyde - Vibeke Jensen: OE long /a:/ words in some fourteenth and fifteenth century Yorkshire texts - Ewa Ciszek: Some aspects of word-formation in Henryson's Fables - Matti Kilpiö: Causative habban in Old English - Janusz Malak: Preposition stranding in Old English - Justyna Rogos: Transcribing and editing graphetic detail in the manuscripts of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale - Rafal Boryslawski: The riddle of poetry: Literary riddles and modern hermeneutics - Barbara Kowalik: The motif of journey in Cynewulf's Fates of the apostles - Rory McTurk: External prolepsis in Beowulf - Klára Petríková: "Alle we beoth in the worldes wode weater". Water imagery in Ancrene wisse - Piotr Spyra: Clean but impatient: Pearl-poet's Jonah in the face of the Lord.

O autorze

The Editors: Marcin Krygier, Ph.D. in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at 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 the University of California, Los Angeles; 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 and acting head of the American Literature Department at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.