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Book Synopsis The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook by : Mark C. Amodio
Download or read book The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook written by Mark C. Amodio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Book Synopsis A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies by : Jacqueline Stodnick
Download or read book A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies written by Jacqueline Stodnick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the profound impact of critical theory on the study of the humanities, this collection of original essays examines the texts and artifacts of the Anglo-Saxon period through key theoretical terms such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘gender’. Explores the interplay between critical theory and Anglo-Saxon studies Theoretical framework will appeal to specialist scholars as well as those new to the field Includes an afterword on the value of the dialogue between Anglo-Saxon studies and critical theory
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature by : Hugh Magennis
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature written by Hugh Magennis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Anglo-Saxon literature in an approachable way, this is an indispensable guide for students to a key literary topic.
Book Synopsis Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature by : M. Drout
Download or read book Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature written by M. Drout and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Connecting the theory of tradition with the phenomenon of influence, Drout moves beyond current theories.
Book Synopsis Land and Book by : Scott Thompson Smith
Download or read book Land and Book written by Scott Thompson Smith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land and Book places a variety of texts in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English.
Book Synopsis Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England by : Michael Lapidge
Download or read book Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An collection of essays by specialists in the field examining Anglo-Saxon learning and text interpretation and transmission.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature by : Phillip Pulsiano
Download or read book A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies. Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars. Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period. Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings. Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology by : Helena Hamerow
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology written by Helena Hamerow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of experts and presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, The Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology will both stimulate and support further investigation into a society poised at the interface between prehistory and history.
Book Synopsis Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature by : Seth Lerer
Download or read book Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature written by Seth Lerer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the ninth century Alfred the Great lamented the decay of teaming in England and proposed a program of official translations and scholarly study to set his country back on the path of intellectual inquiry. In his Preface to Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care, Alfred equated a knowledge of texts with the right governance of self and state. That document, rich in the history of Anglo-Saxon England and suggestive of the uses of literacy, has long been a canonical text in the teaching of the Old English language, and it begins Seth Lerer's study of the place of texts in the construction of the Anglo-Saxon literary imagination. Beowulf, the Old English Daniel, Bede's Ecclesiastical History, the Exeter Book Riddles--all contain scenes of reading and writing, moments of self-conscious inscription and decipherment that have the power to alter the reader's conception of the mythical and historical, the commonplace and the fantastic. Lerer analyzes these scenes, which, taken in sequence, contribute to a reassessment of Old English literature, its nature and social function. He seeks to understand the workings of the lit-erate imagination in the history and fiction of the Anglo-Saxons. In the course of the book he addresses questions about how a Christian literature evokes its pagan past; about the nature of authority in Anglo-Saxon history, politics, and literature; and he considers how scholarly approaches to these questions--whether by medieval or by modern readers--create canons of literary history. Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature is the first book-length study to consider the construction of an early English cultural mythology of writing. Lerer's philological and historical explication of the texts provides new approaches for assessing representations of reading and writing in pre-Conquest literature. His book is a timely and provocative addition to medieval studies.
Book Synopsis The Anglo-Saxon World by : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon World written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving poems printed in their entirety.
Book Synopsis Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture by : James Paz
Download or read book Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture written by James Paz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to ‘thing theory’ and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon writers and craftsmen describe artefacts and animals through riddling forms or enigmatic language, balancing an attempt to speak and listen to things with an understanding that these nonhumans often elude, defy and withdraw from us. But the active role that things have in the early medieval world is also linked to the Germanic origins of the word, where a þing is a kind of assembly, with the ability to draw together other elements, creating assemblages in which human and nonhuman forces combine.
Book Synopsis The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature by : Irina Dumitrescu
Download or read book The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature written by Irina Dumitrescu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that revealed the emotional and cognitive complexity of learning. Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education to explore the relationship between teacher and student. These texts hint at the challenges of teaching and learning: curiosity, pride, forgetfulness, inattention, and despair. Still, these difficulties are understood to be part of the dynamic process of pedagogy, not simply a sign of its failure. The book demonstrates the enduring concern of Anglo-Saxon authors with learning throughout Old English and Latin poems, hagiographies, histories, and schoolbooks.
Book Synopsis Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature by : Jonathan Wilcox
Download or read book Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature written by Jonathan Wilcox and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ different approaches to explore humor in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter Book, and Old English saints' lives. An introductory essay provides a survey of the field, while individual essays push towards a distinctive theory of Anglo-Saxon humour. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. Contributors: JOHN D. NILES, T.A. SHIPPEY, RAYMOND P. TRIPP JR, E.L. RISDEN, D.K. SMITH, NINA RULON-MILLER, SHARI HORNER, HUGH MAGENNIS. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter. Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives. The articles are prefaced with an introduction surveying the field. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter.
Download or read book Undoing Babel written by Tristan Major and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.
Book Synopsis Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England by : Tom Lambert
Download or read book Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England written by Tom Lambert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only modern book-length account of Anglo-Saxon legal culture and practice, from the pre-Christian laws of Æthelberht of Kent (c. 600) up to the Norman conquest of 1066, charting the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice.
Author :Heide Estes Publisher :Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures ISBN 13 :9789089649447 Total Pages :208 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (494 download)
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes by : Heide Estes
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes written by Heide Estes and published by Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies that view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by : Angus Wilson
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret Drabble First published in 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the 'Piltdown Man', finally exposed in 1953. The novel's protagonist is Gerald Middleton, professor of early medieval history and taciturn creature of habit. Separated from his Swedish wife, Gerald is increasingly conscious of his failings. Moreover, some years ago he was involved in an excavation that led to the discovery of a grotesque idol in the tomb of Bishop Eorpwald. The sole survivor of the original excavation party, Gerald harbours a potentially ruinous secret...
