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Author : Mark Ford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065689
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book London written by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems about London, organized chronologically from John Gower (14th century) to Ahren Warner (1986-)
Author : Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317796314
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Understanding Medieval Primary Sources written by Joel T. Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval society created many kinds of records and written material which differ considerably, giving us such sources as last wills, sermons, manorial accounts, or royal biographies. Primary sources are an exciting way for students to engage with the past and draw their own ideas about life in the medieval period. Understanding Medieval Primary Sources is a collection of essays that will introduce students to the key primary sources that are essential to studying medieval Europe. The sources are divided into two categories: the first part treats some of the many generic sources that have been preserved, such as wills, letters, royal and secular narratives and sermons. Chapter by chapter each expert author illustrates how they can be used to reveal details about medieval history. The second part focuses on areas of historical research that can only be fully discovered by using a combination of primary sources, covering fields such as maritime history, urban history, women’s history and medical history. Understanding Medieval Primary Sources will be an invaluable resource for any student embarking on medieval historical research.
Author : Bernard Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872991
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book English Verse 1830 - 1890 written by Bernard Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular anthology provides a collection of the most significant Victoran verse xxx; including some minor figures notably John Clare, Emily Bronte and James Thomson. Fully annotated, this collection contains introductions to individual poets, headnotes to the poems and full and informative footnotes. It represents Victorian poetic taste at its best and is the ideal companion for everyone interested in poetry of the period.
Author : Catalin Taranu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000349667
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia written by Catalin Taranu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes employed the conceit of their participating in a tradition of oral verse for a variety of purposes: from political propaganda to constructing origin myths for early medieval nationhood or heroic masculinity, and sometimes for challenging these paradigms. The more complex of these historical visions actively meditated on their own relationship to truthfulness and fictionality while also performing sophisticated (and often subversive) cultural and socio-emotional work for its audiences. By rethinking canonical categories of historiographical discourse from within medieval textual productions, Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-Picker aims to recover a part of the wide array of narrative poetic forms through which medieval communities made sense of their past and structured their socio-emotional experience.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079922
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an introduction to the full range of standard reference tools in all branches of English studies. More than 10,000 titles are included. The Reference Guide covers all the areas traditionally defined as English studies and all the field of inquiry more recently associated with English studies. British and Irish, American and world literatures written in English are included. Other fields covered are folklore, film, literary theory, general and comparative literature, language and linguistics, rhetoric and composition, bibliography and textual criticism and women's studies.
Author : Robert Welch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861402496
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789-1897 written by Robert Welch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study surveys the course of verse translation from the Irish, starting with the notorious Macpherson controversy and ending with the publication of George Sigerson's Bards of the Gael and Gall in 1897. Professor Welch considers some of the problems and challenges relating to the translation of Irish verse into English in the context of translation theory and ideas about cultural differentiation. Throughout the book, we see again and again the dilemma of poets who must be faithful to the spirit or the form of Irish verse, but who rarely have the ability to capture both. The relationship between Irish and English in the nineteenth century was, necessarily, a critical one, and the translators were often working at the centre of the crisis, whether they were aware of it or not. As Celticism evolved into nationalism and heroic idealism, these influences can be clearly seen in the development of verse translation from the Irish.
Author : Yue Zhang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438486936
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Lore and Verse written by Yue Zhang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220–589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through poetry, as well as how and why certain historical figures were commemorated in poetry. In writing poems on history, poets retrospectively crafted their own identities through their celebration of historical figures, and they prospectively fortified a continuous lineage for transmitting their values and reputation to future generations. This continuous tradition of cultural memory informs a poet's reception of historical figures, which in turn shapes that tradition through further intertextual connections. Lore and Verse questions the sweeping generalization of early medieval Chinese poetry as consisting mainly of exuberant images and an ornamental style—an inaccurate characterization repeated by later historians and literary critics—and it provides translations, close readings, and analyses of selected poems on history that will be useful for students, instructors, and general readers interested in premodern Chinese literature and culture.
Author : Bernhard ten Brink
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Language and Metre of Chaucer written by Bernhard ten Brink and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. A. K.Ten Brink
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Language and Metre of Chaucer written by B. A. K.Ten Brink and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199267324
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative written by Heather O'Donoghue and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a detailed reading of a series of sophisticated medieval narratives, the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. It shows how saga authors achieved a wide range of stylistic and psychological effects through the interplay of prose and verse: bringing history to life, presenting fiction as if it were history, and providing saga characters with dramatic dialogue and strange soliloquies.
Author : John D. Niles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118598830
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Old English Literature written by John D. Niles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies Addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme Embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with reference to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more
Author : John Julian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations ... written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Ssmll
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter and published by Ssmll. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For editors of alliterative verse, this book is essential reading'. Susanna Fein, Speculum, lxxxv (2010), pp. 457 - 458. 'A model of meticulousness and sensible argument'. Thomas Bredehoft, Review of English Studies, lx (2009), pp. 802 - 804. The volume provides a comprehensive study of the metre of the unrhymed poems of the Alliterative Revival. It includes detailed analysis and discussion of line endings, alliterative patterning, historical grammar, the relationship between linguistic stress and beat, and presents new discoveries regarding the metrical rules of the a-verse. Readers interested in the metre and textual criticism of alliterative poems, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Siege of Jerusalem and the Alexander fragments, will find this monograph 'an outstanding, scholarly, assured and important work' (Ruth Kennedy, Royal Holloway, University of London).
Author : David Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521333986
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature: From antiquity to 1700 written by David Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first volume of David Norton's magisterial two-volume work surveys and analyses a comprehensive range of these ideas from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century, providing a unique view of the Bible and translation.
Author : Hugh Magennis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843943
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse written by Hugh Magennis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of the Old English poem 'Beowulf' proliferate, and their number continues to grow. Focussing on the particularly rich period since 1950, this book presents a critical account of translations in English verse, setting them in the contexts both of the larger story of recovery and reception of the poem and perceptions of it.
Author : Antonie Gerard van den Broek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040233902
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot Vol 1 written by Antonie Gerard van den Broek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents George Eliot's shorter poetry. This volume includes an introduction, which discusses Eliot's interest in poetry verse and its relation to her prose and prose fiction; her recurring themes and motifs; the poetry's critical reception and its value to modern readers.
Author : Omar Khayyam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The quatrains of Omar Khayyám, tr. into Engl. verse by E.H. Whinfield written by Omar Khayyam and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
