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Beskrivning
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Pozna, Poland, in November 2011. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of medieval literature, language and art.
Liliana Sikorska, PhD 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, Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University; author and co-author of numerous books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna (Poland).Marcin Krygier, PhD in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, author and co-author of numerous books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna (Poland).
Innehållsförteckning
Contents: Laura Wright: On historical dictionaries and language boundaries: Evidence from medieval mixed-language business writing Magdalena Bator: Boil vs. seethe in Middle English Minako Nakayasu: Chaucers historical present: A discourse-pragmatic perspective Marietta Rusinek: Medieval French borrowings in the English cakes vocabulary: A historical semantic analysis Ad Putter: The predictable and the unpredictable: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the metres of Middle English romance Bartomiej Baszkiewicz: On some representations of Mary Magdalene in Middle English literature Barbara Kowalik: We make our wealth our god and turn our souls to paupers: Images of poverty and prosperity in Robert Henrysons Fables Hans Sauer/Veronika Traidl: Beowulf and Beowulf films, or: Fathers, sons, and monsters Andrzej Wicher: The fairy needlewoman Emar - A study of the Middle English romance Emar in the context of the tale of magic.
