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Download full textHickok, Kathleen – 1977
The social and literary representation of the unmarried woman of "a certain age"--the spinster--provides a convenient focus for observing the overall progress of all women in English life. As the single woman's stature increased in the esteem of her culture, English writers began to reflect the changing social attitudes by depicting her in ever…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, English Literature, Females, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedPintzuk, Susan; Kroch, Anthony S. – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Analyzes the rightward movement of noun and prepositional phrases in the Early Old English poem "Beowulf." Evidence is provided for heavy noun phrase shift, with a characteristic major intonational boundary between the main verb and the postponed noun phrase, and preposition phrase extraposition, where the intonational boundary was much…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Nouns
