Michael D C Drout
Biographic Data
| ID | 1647774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D C Drout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D C |
| FAMILY NAME | Drout |
| SIGNATURE | DROUT M D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wheaton College - Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8919-5216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Old English Philology
For a dead methodology, Philology sure is productive.The decline in the academic power and prestige of the discipline, which J.R.R. Tolkien noted soon after World War I and later lamented in his 19
The Cynewulf of Albert S. Cook
Albert Stanburrough Cook was the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but contemporary medievalists have forgotten him and contemporary historians of literature misapprehend his work. A thorough and judicious analysis of Cook's research, particularly on Cynewulf, shows how his philology was not too “narrow” or removed from political dispute (as asserted by Gerald Graff in Professing Literature), …
Variation within Limits
Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform Michael D. C. Drout (bio) One1 of Albert Lord’s more surprising discoveries about living oral traditions was that no two oral performances of the South Slavic epic that he collected were precisely the same (1953).2 Scholars before Milman Parry and Lord seem to have assumed that any long performance must have been of a text that had been memorized verb…
A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine
Laboratory in vitro testing of various remedies from the Old English Leechbooks and Lacnunga does not support previous assertions that Anglo-Saxon medical remedies would have been efficacious. For example, the remedy for a stye in the eye takes ingredients that individually have anti-bacterial properties and compounds them into a mixture with no effect on common bacteria. We conclude that Anglo-Saxon remedies were not likely to have cured the ail…
The Problem of Transformation
This paper examines the ways that contemporary authors have transformed medieval source materials in fantasy literature. Three types of transformations can be identified: Type 1, in which authors transform medieval material without noting or acknowledging it in their text, but without making any efforts to disguise the source; Type 2, in which authors point out their sources and discuss their modification; and Type 3, in which the sources are eit…
How They Do Things with Words
How They Do Things with Words:Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books Laura B. Comoletti (bio) and Michael D. C. Drout (bio) She had fled the Powers of the desert tombs, and then she had left the Powers of learning and skill offered her by her guardian, Ogion. She had turned her back on all that, gone to the other side, the other room, where the women lived, to be one of them. -Ursula K. Le Guin, Te…
How They Do Things with Words
How They Do Things with Words:Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books Laura B. Comoletti (bio) and Michael D. C. Drout (bio) She had fled the Powers of the desert tombs, and then she had left the Powers of learning and skill offered her by her guardian, Ogion. She had turned her back on all that, gone to the other side, the other room, where the women lived, to be one of them. -Ursula K. Le Guin, Te…
Variation within Limits
Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform Michael D. C. Drout (bio) One1 of Albert Lord’s more surprising discoveries about living oral traditions was that no two oral performances of the South Slavic epic that he collected were precisely the same (1953).2 Scholars before Milman Parry and Lord seem to have assumed that any long performance must have been of a text that had been memorized verb…
A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine
Laboratory in vitro testing of various remedies from the Old English Leechbooks and Lacnunga does not support previous assertions that Anglo-Saxon medical remedies would have been efficacious. For example, the remedy for a stye in the eye takes ingredients that individually have anti-bacterial properties and compounds them into a mixture with no effect on common bacteria. We conclude that Anglo-Saxon remedies were not likely to have cured the ail…
How They Do Things with Words
How They Do Things with Words:Language, Power, Gender, and the Priestly Wizards of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Books Laura B. Comoletti (bio) and Michael D. C. Drout (bio) She had fled the Powers of the desert tombs, and then she had left the Powers of learning and skill offered her by her guardian, Ogion. She had turned her back on all that, gone to the other side, the other room, where the women lived, to be one of them. -Ursula K. Le Guin, Te…
The Problem of Transformation
This paper examines the ways that contemporary authors have transformed medieval source materials in fantasy literature. Three types of transformations can be identified: Type 1, in which authors transform medieval material without noting or acknowledging it in their text, but without making any efforts to disguise the source; Type 2, in which authors point out their sources and discuss their modification; and Type 3, in which the sources are eit…
A reassessment of the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medicine
Laboratory in vitro testing of various remedies from the Old English Leechbooks and Lacnunga does not support previous assertions that Anglo-Saxon medical remedies would have been efficacious. For example, the remedy for a stye in the eye takes ingredients that individually have anti-bacterial properties and compounds them into a mixture with no effect on common bacteria. We conclude that Anglo-Saxon remedies were not likely to have cured the ail…
The Cynewulf of Albert S. Cook
Albert Stanburrough Cook was the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but contemporary medievalists have forgotten him and contemporary historians of literature misapprehend his work. A thorough and judicious analysis of Cook's research, particularly on Cynewulf, shows how his philology was not too “narrow” or removed from political dispute (as asserted by Gerald Graff in Professing Literature), …
Variation within Limits
Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform Michael D. C. Drout (bio) One1 of Albert Lord’s more surprising discoveries about living oral traditions was that no two oral performances of the South Slavic epic that he collected were precisely the same (1953).2 Scholars before Milman Parry and Lord seem to have assumed that any long performance must have been of a text that had been memorized verb…
Old English Philology
For a dead methodology, Philology sure is productive.The decline in the academic power and prestige of the discipline, which J.R.R. Tolkien noted soon after World War I and later lamented in his 19
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