Author: Macedward LeachPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Amis and Amiloun
Author: Macedward LeachHunting in Middle English Literature
Author: Anne RooneyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913799
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An analysis of the hunt, its imagery and allusion, in Middle English literature.
Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace
Author: Edward E FosterPublisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444407
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace are classified by Lillian Herlands Hornstein as Legendary Romances of Didactic Intent. Amis, produced in the East Midlands in the late thirteenth century was well known throughout Europe, but according to Edward Foster, the Middle English version is especially lively, entertaining, and perplexing.Robert of Cisyle was also a common and popular story. Like the medieval tragedies recounted in Chaucer's The Monk's Tale, it recounts the story of the fall of a great man and his ultimate triumph once he has been thoroughly humiliated.The stress in Sir Amadace is on material things: Amadace's original plight is material, his succor of the unburied knight is material, the white knight's assistance to him is material, his redemption is material . . . , and his ultimate happiness is material. - from the Introduction
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Author: Höskuldur ThräinssonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402002946
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
O. THE CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME AND THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX Comparati ve synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. A central reason for this is that recent developments in linguistic theory have made it possible to formulate explicit and testable hypotheses concerning syntactic universals and cross-linguistic varia- tion. Here we refer to the so-called "Principles-and-Parameters" approaches (see Chomsky 1981a, 1982, 1986a, and also Williams 1987, Freidin 1991, Chomsky and Lasnik 1993, and references cited in these works). It may even be fair to say that the Government-Binding framework (first outlined by Chomsky 1981b)-a spe- cific instantiation of the Principles-and-Parameters approach-has been more influential than any other theoretical syntactic framework. Since 1984, syntacticians investigating the formal properties of Germanic languages have, as an international effort, organized "workshops" on comparative Germanic syntax. The first was held at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway (1984), the second at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland (1985), the third at the University of Abo in Abo, Finland (1986), the fourth at McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1987), the fifth in Groningen, The Nether- lands (1988), the sixth in Lund, Sweden (1989), the seventh in Stuttgart, Germany (1991), the eighth in Troms, Norway (1992), the ninth at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (1994), the tenth at the Catholic University in Brussels, Belgium (1995), and the eleventh at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA (1995).
Syntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry
Author: Gregory H. RoscowPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to give an outline of structural features of Chaucer's poetic syntax that are relevant to the study of style, and to define some general tendencies in his construction of sentences. What emerges is a fondness on Chaucer's part for discontinuity in the order of words and phrases and for certain forms of expression which have a wider application t: han their modern counterparts. In order that Chaucer's usage may be seen in its historical context, comparative material is drawn from the writings of his contemporaries - Langland, Gower, and the Gawain-poet - and from the body of early English rhyming romances now taken to represent an influent: ial native poetic tradition. I In an introductory chapter Dr Roscow questions the familiar description of Chaucer's syntax as colloquial, and argues for attention to a wider range of literary functions in studying the relationship between syntax and style in nedieval poetry
Medium Aevum
Author: Charles Talbut OnionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
The Friend
Author: Alan BrayPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226071812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
And perhaps most notably, he evaluates how the ethics of friendship have evolved over the centuries, from traditional emphases on loyalty, to the Kantian idea of moral benevolence, to the more private and sexualized idea of friendship that emerged during the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.
Case Marking and Reanalysis
Author: Cynthia L. AllenPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198238676
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
English underwent sweeping changes to its inflectional system in the Middle English period and it is widely assumed that the loss of case-marking distinctions had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. Allen here makes a detailed study of these changes, questioning the results of previous analyses which, she argues, posit too direct a link between the morphological and syntactic changes.
Culture, Power and Personality in Medieval France
Author: John F. BentonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826432980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This collection is a notable example of how the cultural history of the middle ages can be written in terms that satisfy both the historian and the literary scholar. John Benton's knowledge of the personnel, structure and finance of medieval courts complemented his understanding of the literature they produced.
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