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Full Description
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, Poland, in November 2007. 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 pragmatics, and from Chaucer to Middle English religious and secular discourse.
Contents
Contents: Simon Horobin: 'Speaking and Writing in Suffolk Speech': the language and dialect of Osbern Bokenham - Jerzy Wełna: The post-sonorant devoicing of [d] in the past/past participle forms of weak verbs (sent, spend, etc.) - Janusz Malak: The categorization of the infinitive in the Old English ACI constructions - Justyna Rogos: A synchronic approach to Old English nominal paradigms in the study of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies - Anna Kamińska-Cichosz: The use of the «Subordinate Word-Order» in Old English and Old High German - a Text-Type Dependent Comparative Analysis - Andrzej Wicher: Tolkien's indolent kings - echoes of medieval history in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Noel Harold Kaylor Jr.: The shape of Chaucerian tragedy - Władysław Witalisz: «That mikel lith in Havelok» - supernatural signs of authority in Middle English romance - Anna Czarnowus: Feminine acedia in Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid - Rafał Borysławski: Twist and turn: On the visual rhetoric of Old English variation - Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz: The poetics of the Gest historiale of the destruction of Troy.
