‘Goblins, owles and sprites’: discerning early-modern English preternatural beings through collocational analysis
Using the tools of collocational analysis, we explore the distribution and lexical relations of fairy, goblin, imp, and cognate terms within a corpus of approximately 17.6 million words of early-modern English. We found that imp, incubus, and familiar have well-circumscribed associations and are res...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2014]
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Religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 547-572 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Literature
/ Supernatural being
/ Demonology
/ Superstition
/ History 1500-1750
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles |
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