Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis

Drout, Michael D.C.; Kisor, Yvette; Smith, Leah; Dennett, Allison; Piirainen, Natasha

ISBN 10: 3319808559 / ISBN 13: 9783319808550

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3319808559
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783319808550
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Lexomic Methods

2.1 Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis

2.2 Interpreting Dendrogram Geometries

3 Text Preparation of Beowulf

3.1 Text Preparation: Orthography

3.2 Text Preparation: Edition and Text

4 Cluster Analysis of Beowulf

4.1 Identifying Segment Boundaries: Screening

4.2 Identifying Segment Boundaries in the A-Scribe Text

4.2.1 Finding Robust Geometries Using Shifting

4.2.2 Hinting Segment Boundaries

4.2.3 Finding Robust Geometries Using Blending

4.2.4 Segment Boundaries for the A-Scribe Dendrogram

4.2.5 Analysis of the A-Scribe Dendrogram

4.3 Identifying Segment Boundaries in the B-Scribe Text

4.3.1 Screening the B-Scribe Text

4.3.2 Identifying Segments in the B-Scribe Text

4.4 Analysis of the A-Scribe and B-Scribe Texts Together

4.4.1 Segment J

4.4.2 Blending and Deleting to Determine In-Clade Relationships

4.5 Synthesis of Cluster Analysis of Beowulf

5 Interpretation of the Cluster Analysis

5.1 Groupings of Segments

5.2 High-Level Similarities and Differences

5.3 Interwoven Discourses

5.4 Sources

5.4.1 Unferth and Breca

5.4.2 Finnsburg and Danish History

5.4.3 The Fights with Grendel and Grendel's Mother

5.5 Structure

5.5.1 Two- and Three-Part Structures

5.5.2 Alternate Structures

5.6 Implications for Authorship Hypotheses

5.7 Implications for Dating

6 Conclusions Drawn from Cluster Analysis

Bibliography

Index

À propos de l?auteur

Michael D.C. Drout is Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of How Tradition Works and Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature.

Yvette Kisor is Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. Her essays on medieval literature, particularly Anglo-Saxon, include publications in Anglo-Saxon England, The Chaucer Review, and ANQ.

Leah Smith is an independent scholar, as well as a public artist and art educator, working in Providence, RI, USA. She was a member of the Wheaton Lexomics Research Group from 2011-2014.

Allison Dennett is an independent scholar and childcare provider, working in Portsmouth, NH, USA. She was a member of the Wheaton Lexomics Research Group in 2013.

Natasha Piirainen is an independent scholar and a project associate working for an education non-profit in Portland, Maine, USA. She was a Mars Fellow, a Gertrude Adams Professional Development Fellow, and a member of the Wheaton Lexomics Research Group in 2013.