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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253341503321

Autore

Drout Michael D.C

Titolo

Beowulf Unlocked : New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis / / by Michael D.C. Drout, Yvette Kisor, Leah Smith, Allison Dennett, Natasha Piirainen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319306285

3319306286

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 96 p. 16 illus., 15 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Language and languages - Style

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

European literature

Stylistics

Classical and Antique Literature

European Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Lexomic Methods -- Text Preparation of Beowulf -- Cluster Analysis of Beowulf -- Interpretation of the Cluster Analysis -- Conclusions Drawn from Cluster Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index .

Sommario/riassunto

The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses "lexomic" methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate robust similarities and differences among segments of the poem. The correlation of these patterns with knowledge gained from source-study, philological analysis, and neglected previous scholarship sheds new light on the material of which Beowulf was made and the way it was composed. The implications of this investigation for the dating, structure, and cultural context of Beowulf will overturn the current



scholarly consensus and significantly improve our understanding of the poem, its nature, and origins. .

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910598015403321

Autore

Mack Edward

Titolo

Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism / / Edward Mack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2022

[s.l.] : , : University of California Press, , 2022

ISBN

9780520383050

0520383052

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New Interventions in Japanese Studies

Disciplina

981/.61

Soggetti

History / Asia / Japan

Literary Collections / Asian / Japanese

Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese

History

Anthologies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The State -- 3. Culture -- Ten Stories from Brazil -- 4. Ethnos -- 5. Language -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Proper Names -- Appendix 2: Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese) -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.   This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It provides a detailed history of Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that existed in Brazil prior to World War II. This case study of the reading and writing of one diasporic population challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or



implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls "acquired alterity," in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. Acquired Alterity encourages a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of peoplehood that are often the true objects of literary knowledge production.