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 t...
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Introduction.- Lexomic Methods.- Text Preparation of Beowulf.- Cluster Analysis of Beowulf.- Interpretation of the Cluster Analysis.- Conclusions Drawn from Cluster Analys...
Despre autor
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-Sa...