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posted on 2021-11-07, 20:32 authored by Wright, Frank William NielsenDuring the last twenty years Anglo-Saxon scholars have sought to discover in the Anglo-Saxon verse corpus something comparable to the FORMULAS in Homer as described by Parry [see Note 1]. In Homer formulas are recognised as expressions which are characteristically of no less than four words or five syllables, repeated in the corpus, and often used uniquely when the same needs of meaning, grammar and metre arise. In the Anglo-Saxon verse corpus repetitions as close as Homer's are rarer in occurrence and shorter in scope. The current view is that formulas as found in Homer are not matched by anything fully comparable in the Anglo-Saxon verse corpus.
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonRights License
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Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of WellingtonDegree Level
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Doctor of PhilosophyVictoria University of Wellington Item Type
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Literary criticismOld English studiesEnglish language studiesLiteracy theoryCompositional systemStudies on BeowulfSchool: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies200525 Literary TheoryMarsden: 420222 Literary TheoryMarsden: 420101 EnglishDegree Discipline: EnglishDegree Level: DoctoralDegree Name: Doctor of PhilosophyLiterary Theory