Reading Old English Texts
Reading Old English Texts

Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-08-28

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521469708

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Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

The Old English Elegies
The Old English Elegies

Author: Anne L. Klinck

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780773522411

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Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the hear

A Firstbook of Old English
A Firstbook of Old English

Author: Robert D. Stevick

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2003-09-19

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1592443532

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'A Firstbook of Old English' distills instructional materials developed through forty years of teaching this ancestral form of our language. Uniquely it is shaped by principles of second-language instruction without diluting philology of the past century and a half. The author's 'One Hundred Middle English Lyrics' earlier offered a unique and very successful teaching text. His most recent scholarly publication is 'The Earliest Irish and English Bookarts.' Robert Stevick is now Professor of English Emeritus, University of Washington.

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

Author: Malcolm Godden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-05-31

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521377942

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Ideal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.

A History of Old English Meter
A History of Old English Meter

Author: R. D. Fulk

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1512802220

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In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.