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Researcher of Anglo-Saxon England, Sacred Language and Suggestion in Poetic Texts
Between 2008 and June 2011, I was a PhD student at the Department of English at Ukraine's Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Only just recently, I defended my PhD thesis and will soon have the degree!
For my PhD, I have chosen a subject which I both find exciting on a personal level and which gives you wonderful results in terms of research outputs, and that is Ethnic Myth in the Image Systems of Old English Epic-Mythological Texts. If I get asked what the relevance of a PhD in Anglo-Saxon is for the modern times, I usually wonder whether people ask the same of their ancestors or their history! Anglo-Saxon England and its literature are a unique blend of heathendom and Christian spirituality, belligerence and philosophy, individualism and care for the collective good, humility and fatalism paired with the most incredible arrogance and (sometimes) bawdy humor - in one word, if you would like to understand what underlies the phenomenon of England and the English today, you need to delve back to the roots.
My articles
| Titles in English | Названия статей по-русски или по-украински |
| Anastasia Slukhai. Beowulf: the Epic's Plot and Symbolism in Connection with the Realia of the Early Middle Ages - in Ukrainian Published in: Mova ta istoriya (Language and History), Kyiv, Ukraine, 2005 |
Слухай А. „Беовульф”: сюжет і символіка поеми у зв’язку із реаліями раннього середньовіччя // Мова та історія. – 2005. – Вип. 83. – С. 24-30. |
| Anastasia Slukhai. Evolution of Ethnic and Cultural Color Codes in English (based on Beowulf and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings) - in Russian Published in: Horizons of Psycholinguistics, Tver, Russia, 2009. |
Слухай А. С. Эволюция этнокультурных кодов цвета в английском языке (на материале поэмы «Беовульф» и романа «Властелин Колец» Дж. Р. Р. Толкиена) // Горизонты психолингвистики. – Тверь, 2009. – С. 256-261. |
A. Slukhai. Color phrasal units in the modern English-language fantasy discourse (from J.
R. R. Tolkien to |
Слухай А. Об’єктивація фразеологізмів з колоративами в сучасному англомовному фентезійному дискурсі: від Дж. Р. Р. Толкієна до Дж. К. Роулінг // Мовні і концептуальні картини світу. – 2006. – Вип. 19. – С. 255-260. |
| Anastasia Slukhai. Center Vs. Periphery - Structure of the Germanic Cosmos - in English Published in: European Mentality through the Prism of Language, Samara, Russia, 2010. |
Slukhai A. Center vs. Periphery: The Structure of the Germanic Cosmos // Европейская ментальность сквозь призму языка : международный сборник научных трудов по лингвокультурологии. – Самара, 2010. – С.63-71. |
The synopsis of my PhD Thesis
In Ukraine, prior to the defense of a PhD degree, one is required to publish a so-called self-referral paper, which is basically a synopsis of the work with annotations in three languages. This synopsis is an official document and it represents the thesis to the wider scholarly community
The synopsis to my work can be downloaded here using this link (PDF format) - it is in Ukrainian, but there is an English annotation.
Автореферат дисертації А. С. Слухай "Етнічний міф в образних парадигмах давньоанглійських епіко-міфологічних текстів" завантажити.
My presentations
Please note that I usually duplicate my articles here and on Scribd. One shouldn't find (or publish) them anywhere else! If you'd like to use the articles as reference material for your research, you're certainly welcome. Please link to the articles rather than upload them to your page