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Martin, which can, surprisingly enough, trace its ancestry to medieval flyting contests.

The bulk of the play encompasses a rather tedious flyting match between Antichrist and the prophets, who hurl insults, rebukes, and curses at one another for 220 lines.

Then follow chapters devoted to the main aspects of Henderson's writing career, considering him as a cultural theorist and centring on the "Flyting" with MacDiarmid; Henderson as a poet, with a discussion of his wartime work in Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica and Ballads of World War II, and his later involvement in the Honoured Shade controversy and its aftermath; Henderson as a translator, with a discussion of his edition of the prison letters of Antonio Gramsci; finally, Henderson and the Folk Song Revival and his role as a folklorist.

While the rhetoric in these texts is violent and aggressive, their polemic is also 'framed, bounded, contained and therefore made permissible by the rules of a flyting game' (p.

Enright, "The Warband Context of the Unferth Episode," Speculum 73 (1996): 297-337; Ward Parks, "Flyting and Fighting: Pathways in the Realization of the Epic Contest," Neophilologus 70 (1986): 292-306; Patricia Silber, "Rhetoric as Prowess in the Unferth Episode," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 23 (1981): 471-83; C.

Kate is flyting to Malta in September for two days as per Hollywoodlife reports.

As in flyting speeches and curses, when Homeric characters engage in wordplay, they similarly index their power, their ability to exert control over hostile opponents.

It is also worth bearing in mind the "flyting match" between Jessica and Lorenzo with which the scene begins.

Flyting - a new opera by Matthew Rooke at The Maltings, Berwick.

And alongside his elimination of the "knotty & humorous Herakles" from the tale, Palgrave also omits Euripides' Admetus' flyting match with his father, Pheres, which he transforms into Admetus' stately denunciation of his parents, in absentia, for refusing to die for him.