Linguistic Means of Determining the Dates of Old English Literary Texts
Author: Ashley Crandell Amos
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 232
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Reading Old English Texts
Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521469708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading 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 Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
Author: Malcolm Godden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-31
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521377942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal for students, this collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays covers all aspects of Anglo-Saxon literature from 600-1066.
The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
Author: Kazutomo Karasawa
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1843844095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.
Analysing Older English
Author: David Denison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 052111246X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn edited volume which addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English.
A History of Old English Literature
Author: Robert D. Fulk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-03-06
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 1118441125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse
Author: Thomas A. Bredehoft
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0802099459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English. Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary history, Thomas A. Bredehoft traces a tradition of 'literate-formulaic' composition in the period and contends that many phrases conventionally considered oral formulas are in fact borrowings or quotations. His identification of previously unrecognized Old English poems and his innovative arguments about the dates, places of composition, influences, and even possible authors for a variety of tenth- and eleventh-century poems illustrate that the failure of scholars to recognize the late Old English verse tradition has seriously hampered our literary understanding of the period. Provocative and bold, Authors, Audiences and Old English Verse has the potential to transform modern understandings of the classical Old English poetic tradition.
The Cynewulf Reader
Author: Robert E. Bjork
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1134980213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.
Historical Linguistics and Philology
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 3110847264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Images of Medieval Sanctity
Author: Debra Higgs Strickland
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-08-31
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9047420683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson’s particular interests in medieval popular religion, including ‘religious enthusiasm’. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and rich investigation of the idea of sanctity and its many medieval manifestations across time (fifth through fifteenth centuries) and in different geographical locations (England, Scotland, France, Italy, the Low Countries). By approaching the theme of sanctity from multiple disciplinary perspectives, this highly original collection pushes forward current academic thinking about medieval hagiography, iconography, social history, women's studies, and architectural history.
