Manipulations of the mind-as-container motif in Beowulf, Homiletic Fragment II, and Alfred's Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-56

  Mize, Britt ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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