Inside Old English : essays in honour of Bruce Mitchell /
"Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell" gives readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. It consists of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in this field, "Inside Old English" enables readers to engage with the literar...
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Walmsley
- Eight notes on the Beowulf text / Alfred Bammesberger
- A point well taken: manuscript punctuation and Old English poems / Daniel Donoghue
- The incomparable wryness of Old English poetry / Roberta Frank
- Straining words and striving voices: polysemy and ambiguity and the importance of context in the disclosure of meaning / Antonette diPalalo Healey
- Eala, geferan and gode wyrhtan: on interjections in Old English / Risto Hiltunen
- Speaking one's mind in The wanderer / Susan Irvine
- Wulfstan's Scandinavian loanword usage: an aspect of the linguistic situation in the late Old English danelaw / Tadao Kubouchi
- An aspect of Old English poetic diction: the postpositioning of prepositions / Michael Lapidge
- Issues for editors of Anglo-Saxon poetry in manuscript form / Bernard J. Muir
- Language and style in two anonymous Old English Easter homilies / Hiroshi Ogawa
- Latin influence on an Old English idiom: To wit / Matti Rissanen
- Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish evidence / Fred C. Robinson
- How the leopard got its spots: English grammatical categories, Latin terms / John Walmsley
- A bibliography of writings by Bruce Mitchell, 1956-2004.