MODERN APPROACHES TO CLASSIFYING THE OLD ENGLISH POETRY: PROBLEMS OF PERIODIZATION
Ivleva Marina Anatol'evna
Novosibirsk State Technical University
Abstract. The article analyzes the approaches to dating the Old English poetry in their modern state and historical development. The author provides the examples of achronic studies of poetry, such as genre classification and studying the poems in the manuscript context. The paper postulates the solvability of the dating problems relying on the linguistic methods.
Key words and phrases: древнеанглийская поэзия, датировка, периодизация, "Беовульф", жанровая классификация, Old English poetry, dating, periodization, "Beowulf", genre classification
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