Eric Weiskott's scientific contributions

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Article
Certain syntactical ambiguities in Old English poetry have been the focus of debate among students of metre and syntax. Proponents of intentional ambiguity must demonstrate that the passages in question exhibit, not an absence of syntactical clarity, but a presence of syntactical ambiguity. This article attempts such a demonstration. It does so by...

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... Eric Weiskott recently observed that much of the artistry of Old English poetry occurs in the spaces between half-lines. 7 In the caesuras formed by the separate shards of stories in Beowulf, time itself sometimes seems to stutter, like a song on repeat. These ruptures and fissures in the narrative appear to offer points of access, a window on to some other temporality. ...