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Words The You Were Saying: A Thesis Theatre with Sparrow F. Alden
On August 3, 2015, Sparrow F. Alden presented her work constructing a concordance of The Hobbit with lexical analysis with the support of her thesis director Corey Olsen. This project fulfills a small part of the requirement for a Master of Arts degree in Language and Literature from Signum University. Words were chosen for their…
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2024.09.28 Illuminating the Metrical Grammar of Germanic Alliterative Poetry — a Thesis Theater by Peter DeVault
AbstractModern metrical analysis of germanic alliterative poetry (GAP) has invariably proceeded fromedited texts in which the poem is represented visually as verses on a printed page or screen. Ofcourse, that is not how these poems came down to us. The manuscript form of a GA poem istypically indistinguishable from prose, the words (and abbreviations) inscribed…
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24.09.14 The Point of Intersection: A Thesis Theatre by Julia Stowe
The Point of Intersection: Time and Eternity in 8th-10th Century West Germanic Language and Literature Abstract: The concepts of time and eternity, and the words that are used to express them, have significant influence over a culture. This thesis examines how the understanding of these concepts changed in early Germanic culture with the introduction of…
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2025.01.24-26 OzMoot, 24-26 January, 2025
The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and Music in Tolkien’s Works Signum University and the Mythgard Institute, in partnership with Hern Ennorath, invite you to join us in Melbourne for OzMoot 2025. For our first trip to Melbourne and third trip to Australia, we invite you to contemplate The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and…
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Thesis Theatre for Robert Black
MONSTROUS HEROES: BEOWULF AS A CHRISTIAN CRITIQUE OF GERMANIC HEROISM This paper proposes to compare once again the heroes Beowulf and Böðvarr Bjarki, using linguistics and critiques of the heroes to build on the traditional approaches of comparison through folktale, etymological, and literary analysis to examine the degree to which Beowulf may be considered a…
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2024.07.13 Thesis Theatre: Celesta Clegg
“Original Sin: A Portrait of the Fall Through Germanic Texts” Germanic reworkings of Genesis material present a glimpse into the Christian doctrine and societal understandings of the medieval culture in which the texts were composed. This thesis serves as an analysis and synthesis of the topic of original sin as found in a selection of…
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2025.04.26 Willow Moot, 26 April, 2025
How Culture Influences Our Creation and Interpretation of Fiction Signum University invites you to join us on 26 April for Willow Moot 2025. This English-language hybrid event will occur at the Collegium Veteranorum at Maria Theresa College in Leuven, Belgium. For our first appearance in Belgium, we invite you to contemplate How Culture Influences Our…
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2024.10.26 Middle Moot, October 26, 2024
Consolation, Recovery, & Hope in Faerie Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, October 26, 2024, for Middle Moot 2024. This hybrid event will occur at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, MO. For our return to the Midwest, our theme is “Consolation, Recovery,…
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2024.05.10 Thesis Theatre: Shannon Choudhari
“I wonder what you’ve been up to?”: The Notion Club Papers and Tolkien’s Vision of Creative Mysticism Since it’s publication in 1992, Tolkien’s unfinished time-travel story The Notion Club Papers has received relatively infrequent critical attention for its depiction of time and time-travel, as well as for its representation of Tolkien’s Númenor legend. This thesis…
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2025.02.22 Sunshine Moot, February 22, 2025
The Muppet Lord of the Rings Signum University and the Mythgard Institute invite you to join us on Saturday, February 22, 2025, for Sunshine Moot 2025. This hybrid event will occur at the Drury Inn & Suites – Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL. For our return to the Sunshine State, our theme this year…