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Thijs Porck deposited Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
A brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.
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Thijs Porck deposited Beowulf: A Dutch Paper Doll Pirate History (1934) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
Reports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.
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Thijs Porck deposited De Middeleeuwen in Midden-aarde. J.R.R. Tol- kien en zijn Oudengelse inspiratiebronnen on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
A Dutch article that discusses some of the Old English sources that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Dennis Wise deposited Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Critique: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap into Genre in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoDepending on Stephen R. Donaldson’s use of genre, whether science fiction or fantasy, it modifies his essential humanism. In his science fiction, Donaldson accept a more socially embedded humanity. In his fantasy, he leans towards an interiority that is independent of social context.
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Dennis Wise deposited Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAlthough Poul Anderson is best known for his prose, he dabbled in poetry all his life, and his historical interests led him to become a major—if unacknowledged—contributor to the twentieth-century alliterative revival. This revival, most often associated with British poets such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, attempted to ada…[Read more]
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Dennis Wise deposited Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAlthough alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century. The most famous modern practitioners have been J. R. R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and W. H. Auden, but a wholly neg…[Read more]
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Dennis Wise deposited Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Critique: Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap into Genre on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Depending on Stephen R. Donaldson’s use of genre, whether science fiction or fantasy, it modifies his essential humanism. In his science fiction, Donaldson accept a more socially embedded humanity. In his fantasy, he leans towards an interiority that is independent of social context.
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Dennis Wise deposited Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Although Poul Anderson is best known for his prose, he dabbled in poetry all his life, and his historical interests led him to become a major—if unacknowledged—contributor to the twentieth-century alliterative revival. This revival, most often associated with British poets such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, attempted to ada…[Read more]
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Dennis Wise deposited Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century. The most famous modern practitioners have been J. R. R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and W. H. Auden, but a wholly neg…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited ‘I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child’: critical plant theory and the maiden mother conceit in early medieval riddles in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years agoWhile early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited ‘I am a virgin woman and a virgin woman’s child’: critical plant theory and the maiden mother conceit in early medieval riddles on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
While early medieval riddles in Old English and, to a lesser extent, Latin, have been studied extensively from ecocritical perspectives in recent years, the large corpora of riddles in other languages of western Eurasia have yet to benefit from or feed back into these methodological developments. Meanwhile, ecocritical research generally has…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Latin and Hebrew analogues to the Old Norse leek-riddle on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
It has been thought that of the forty or so surviving Old Norse riddles, only two have close parallels in the wider international riddle tradition. This note shows, however, that the riddle on the leek in the probably thirteenth-century Heiðreks saga has a close parallel in one of the late antique or early medieval Bern Riddles, on garlic.…[Read more]
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Alaric Hall deposited Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns: A Translation on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
Agnete Lothʼs edition of the longer version of Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns included an accompanying English paraphrase (by Gillian Fellows Jensen), but there has never been a full translation into English, much less of the shorter version as edited by Hugo Rydberg. We rectify that omission here, providing a normalized text of Rydbergʼs edition w…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Disappeared Poem in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe whereabouts of the manuscript of “Doworst” by Tolkien are unknown. This paper reproduces what is known of the text and comments on its history.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” de J.R.R. Tolkien: Um Poema Desaparecido in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoO paradeiro do manuscrito de “Doworst” por Tolkien é desconhecido. Este artigo reproduz o que se conhece do texto e comenta sobre sua história.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordance among the Calendars of Middle-earth – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe prime source of information about Middle-earth calendars is Appendix D to Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of the Red Book of Westmarch. Thence have these quotations been extracted, in order to achieve a concordance among our reckoning of months and days on the one hand, and the five systems known to have been employed by the Eldar, the H…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordância entre os Calendários da Terra-média – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoA principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução do Livro Vermelho do Marco Ocidental feita pelo Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Foi dali que se extraíram estas citações, para obter uma concordância entre nossa contagem dos meses e dias por um lado, e por outro lado os cinco sistemas que se sabe terem sido…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited The Location of Mount Dolmed on Maps from the First and Third Ages in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoMount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med “wet head”) rose in the First Age above an important pass through the Blue Mountains, between Beleriand and Eriador.
The great dwarven cities of Gabilgathol [Nogrod in Sindarin] and Tumunzahar [Belegost] were built in its vicinity, to the southeast and northeast respectively.
The Blue Mountains [Ered Lui…[Read more] - Load More