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Alexandra Olsen

Alexandra  Olsen

Focus:

Old English and Middle English literature; grammar; history and structure of English

Background:

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Interests:

http://portfolio.du.edu/aolsen

Publications:

Poems and Prose from the Old English (co-written with Burton Raffel); New Readings on Women in Old English Literature (co-edited with Helen Damico); "Betwene Ernest and Game": The Literary Artistry of the "Confessio Amantis"; Speech, Song, and Poetic Craft: The Artistry of the Cynewulf; Guthlac of Croyland: A Study of Heroic Hagiography