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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2022
...—and in so doing, restored suspense to the experience of Doomsday. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Old English Christ III Doomsday catastrophe metrical form hypermeter audience reception We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let us suppose that there is a bomb...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (1): 69–92.
Published: 01 January 2022
... abreotan. (15–16) [Hunger will lay waste to one, the storm will drive one out, the spear will pierce one, war will destroy one.] As Emily Thornbury argues, hypermeter in Old English has the effect of destabilizing its audiences’ sense of control over the poetry: such verses “would have presented...