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Why Does Mary Weep? Emotion and Gender in Advent Lines 164–213 (Advent Lyric VII)
This article re-reads Lyric VII of the poem Advent , the dialogue of Mary and Joseph. The division of speeches in this lyric has been debated, largely...
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Hebban olla vogala: An Eleventh-Century Link Between Dutch and English Literary History
The short eleventh-century lyric Hebban olla vogala is considered the earliest literary text in Dutch. Yet it only survives as a badly faded pen...
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Presenting Others’ Speech and Thought: Multiple Voices in Poems
Like Alluding (Chapter 10 ), at first sight Presenting others’ speech and thought is not the most...
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The Wanderer and the Legacy of Pathetic Fallacy
The Old English poem known as The Wanderer has long been said to rely on the device of ‘pathetic fallacy’ in its descriptions of stormy and frozen...
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Contemporary Poetry and Textual Meaning
This book aims to contribute to our knowledge about language and specifically about the language of a specific kind of text, the lyric poemLyric...
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Unthought Medievalism
This article describes what the author calls “unthought medievalism”: a translation practice where specific forms such as verse, architecture, and...
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Introduction
This book follows a double aim. On the one hand, it is designed to provide the reader with an overview of the history of English poetry. Reaching...
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Textual and Codicological Manifestations of Multilingual Culture in Medieval England
Focusing on multilingual literary texts and manuscripts, this chapter takes stock of developments in recent scholarship and highlights areas in which...
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Childness and Musicality in Babies’ Songbooks
Despite the popularity of babies’ songbooks, there is a lack of research on these works. This article tentatively proposes analytical tools for...
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“Think on the Bludy Serk:” Allegory and Figura in Henryson’s Minor Poem
This essay analyzes the allegorical mode of the previously understudied poem by Robert Henryson, The Bludy Serk. In Serk , a knight saves a lady whom...
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Representation and Narrativization in Ekphrasis
In this chapter, I will focus on the first two qualities of ekphrasisekphrasis, namely, representationrepresentation and narrativization, as well as...
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Technology, Hybrid Identities, and the Art and Craft of Song-Writing in English
This chapter offers a reflection on the role of technology in mediating the identities of multilingual students taking a university course in...
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Daco-Romanian Language: An Indo-European Branch
Following the Greek influence in the region, the Roman conquest of the Balkan Peninsula resulted in a gradual Romanization of the local population....
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Representing Time, Space and Society: Constructing the World of the Poem
The final chapter in this first analytical section of the book considers the other core, and ubiquitous, TCF, which concerns the contribution of...
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Textual Meaning, Linguistic Theory and the Stylistics of Poetry
This book has attempted to establish whether a framework I originally applied to ideology in political language and news reporting could be developed...
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Pop Goes Fang Fang?
Besides official news media reports, social media posts, defamatory “pseudo-academic” attacks, and personal attacks criticizing Wuhan Diary, another...
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The Hatred of Speech and the Poetics of Silence
In this chapter, I look at the case study of the contemporary poet Robert Grenier, in addition to a constellation of influences, especially Charles...
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HABEN WIR DIE TEXTE DER FRÜHGRIECHISCHEN LYRIKER?
Sapphos Altersgedicht (fr. 58 Voigt, überliefert u.a. im berühmten ‚Kölner Sappho- Papyrus‘) und Anakreons sympotische Verse PMG 396 werden in Teilen...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the reader to the topic of the book and provides a definition of political poetry as written by Bekas. In the second section,...
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The Poetics of Maternal Picturebooks for Babies: An Attempt at Defining an Ambivalent Genre
Motherhood has recently become a central topic in a certain kind of picturebook meant for babies that do not tell a story about mothers and children,...