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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of medieval literature, language and art.

Autorentext

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 Poznan (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, Poznan (Poland).

Inhalt

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: Chaucer's 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 - Bartlomiej Blaszkiewicz: 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 Henryson's Fables - Hans Sauer/Veronika Traidl: Beowulf and Beowulf films, or: Fathers, sons, and monsters - Andrzej Wicher: The fairy needlewoman Emaré - A study of the Middle English romance Emaré in the context of the tale of magic.