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A History of Old English Literature

Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118441125
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A History of Old English Literature written by Robert D. Fulk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

A History of Old English Literature

Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470692839
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A History of Old English Literature written by Robert D. Fulk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo-Saxon culture. Responds to renewed emphasis on historical and cultural contexts in the field of medieval studies. Treats virtually the entire range of textual types preserved in Old English. Considers the production, reception and uses of Old English texts. Integrates the Anglo-Latin backgrounds crucial to understanding Old English literature. Offers very extensive bibliographical guidance. Demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates.

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052119332X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature written by Malcolm Godden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Old English Literature

Author : Daniel Donoghue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470776803
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Old English Literature written by Daniel Donoghue and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature. Structured around ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework. Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors. Combines close textual analysis with historical context. Based on the author’s many years experience of teaching Old English literature. The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).

Old English Literature

Author : John D. Niles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118598830
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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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

Introduction to Old English

Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047065984X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Old English written by Peter S. Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care

An Introduction to Middle English

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551118947
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Middle English written by R.D. Fulk and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

A History of Old English Literature

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551113227
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book A History of Old English Literature written by Michael Alexander and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-01-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander’s A History of Old English Literature is an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. It provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives. While it contains solid, insightful and sensible criticism of individual literary works, its overall historical organization suggests that Old English literature was created in a cultural context that changed from one century to another. Although its intentions are scholarly, this history of Old English literature is also an introduction, assuming little knowledge of this period or its surviving products, and none of its language. This edition has been revised and rewritten throughout, and offers a new preface as well as an updated bibliography.

An Introduction to the Old English Language and Its Literature

Author : Stephen Pollington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Old English Language and Its Literature written by Stephen Pollington and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book does not aim to provide a grammar of Old English. Rather it suggests why the language is so fun to learn, and guides the beginner through some of the resources available from the Early Medieval world. The types of text surviving are discussed and a few guided exercises show how reading these is really no more difficult than studying Latin.

The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131617509X
Total Pages : 1206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature written by Clare A. Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.

Woman As Hero In Old English Literature

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597522600
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Woman As Hero In Old English Literature written by Jane Chance and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in Anglo-Saxon literature investigates English secular and religious prose and poetry from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Given the paucity of surviving literature from the Anglo-Saxon period, the works which feature major women characters -- often portrayed as heroes -- seem surprisingly numerous. Even more striking is the strength of the female characterizations, given the medieval social ideal of women as peaceful, passive members of society. The task of this study is to examine the existing sources afresh, asking new questions about the depictions of women in the literature of the period. Particular attention is focused on the failed, possibly adulterous women of 'The Wife's Lament' and 'Wulf and Eadwacer', the monstrous mother of Grendel in 'Beowulf', and the chaste but heroic figures and saints Judith, Juliana, and Elene. The book relies for its analysis on recent and standard texts in Anglo-Saxon studies and literature, as well as a thorough grounding in Latin and vernacular historical documents and Anglo-Saxon writings other than the focal literary texts.

A History of English Literature

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333913970
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Literature written by Michael Alexander and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and oldest literatures in the world. Presented as a narrative, and usable as a work of reference, this text offers an account of literature from the beginnings of English until the year 2000.

Old English Poetry: An Anthology

Author : R.M. Liuzza
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 177048485X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Old English Poetry: An Anthology written by R.M. Liuzza and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations were superior to their predecessors, and that it was impossible to choose between the two: “the less celebrated translator can be matched with the famous one,” he wrote, and “Liuzza’s book is in some respects more useful than Heaney’s.” Ever since, the Liuzza Beowulf has remained among the top sellers on the Broadview list. With this volume readers will now be able to enjoy a much broader selection of Old English poetry in translations by Liuzza. As the collection demonstrates, the range and diversity of the works that have survived is extraordinary—from heartbreaking sorrow to wide-eyed wonder, from the wisdom of old age to the hot blood of battle, and to the deepest and most poignant loneliness. There is breathless storytelling and ponderous cataloguing; there is fervent religious devotion and playful teasing. The poems translated here are meant to provide a sense of some of this range and diversity; in doing so they also offer significant portions of three of the important manuscripts of Old English poetry—the Vercelli Book, the Junius Manuscript, and the Exeter Book.

A New Critical History of Old English Literature

Author : Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814732623
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book A New Critical History of Old English Literature written by Stanley B. Greenfield and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.

The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature

Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192854377
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature written by Pat Rogers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

A Study of Old English Literature

Author : C. L. Wrenn
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393097689
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Old English Literature written by C. L. Wrenn and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1967-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Transnational Press London
ISBN 13 : 1912997940
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods written by Petru Golban and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It appears that literary work possesses eternal temporal validity due to its autonomous aesthetic value, whereas criticism provides points of view having temporary and transitory significance. Despite such claims, the vector of methodology in our series of books, dealing with the history of English literature, relies on Viktor Shklovsky, T. S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and especially Yuri Tynyanov, whose main reasoning would be that literature is a system of dominant, central and peripheral, marginalized elements – to us, “tradition” (centre) versus “innovation” (margin) engaged in a “battle” for supremacy, demarginalization, and the right to form a new literary system – and the development or historical advancement of literature is the substitution of systems. Roman Jakobson and French structuralism, on the whole, later Linda Hutcheon, with her “system” and “constant”, and Bran Nicol with the “dominant”, to say nothing about Itamar Even-Zohar and his theory of polysystem, to a certain extent Julia Kristeva, and even Homi Bhabha – as well as our humble contribution, by means of the books in the present series, we would like to believe – maintain Tynyanov’s line of thinking and concepts alive, which have developed and emerged nowadays more like a kind of “neo-formalism”.