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Book Synopsis The Holme Riddles by : Frederick Tupper
Download or read book The Holme Riddles written by Frederick Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unriddling the Exeter Riddles by : Patrick J. Murphy
Download or read book Unriddling the Exeter Riddles written by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960–980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because they lack textually supplied solutions. Indeed, these ninety-five Old English riddles have become so popular that they have even been featured on posters for the London Underground and have inspired a sculpture in downtown Exeter. Modern scholars have responded enthusiastically to the challenge of solving the Riddles, but have generally examined them individually. Few have considered the collection as a whole or in a broader context. In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles’ complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.
Book Synopsis The Old English Riddles of the 'Exeter Book' by : Craig Williamson
Download or read book The Old English Riddles of the 'Exeter Book' written by Craig Williamson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exeter Book, a late tenth-century manuscript of early Old English poetry, is an anthology of religious homiletic verse, elegiac poetry, and ninety-one lyric riddles. The riddles are of particular interest to students of Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon culture, to archeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists. This volume will supersede all earlier editions of the riddles as the text contains many new manuscript readings, and a summary is given of the scholarship on each riddle. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Book Synopsis The Riddles of the Exeter Book by : Frederick Tupper
Download or read book The Riddles of the Exeter Book written by Frederick Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Riddles by : Mark Bryant
Download or read book Dictionary of Riddles written by Mark Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about fleas, worms and vegetables to the sophisticated puzzles composed by literary figures from Schiller, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau and Cervantes to Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the riddling art. Dictionary of Riddles received a Special Commendation in Reference Review’s Best Specialist Reference Books of 1990 Awards.
Book Synopsis Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by : Modern Language Association of America
Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London by : London Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riddles at Home written by Lisa Regan and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic riddles to spelling puzzles, these brain teasers are all around you. Readers will turn the pages for more mind-bending word games all within the home theme. Each riddle is accompanied by playful illustrations, with answers hidden at the back of the book, to allow readers the chance to solve each one on their own.
Book Synopsis Old English Riddles by : Alfred John Wyatt
Download or read book Old English Riddles written by Alfred John Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Übersicht über die im Jahre ... auf dem Gebiete der englischen Philologie erschienenen Bücher, Schriften und Aufsätze by :
Download or read book Übersicht über die im Jahre ... auf dem Gebiete der englischen Philologie erschienenen Bücher, Schriften und Aufsätze written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 by : Adam Fox
Download or read book Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 written by Adam Fox and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a part of popular culture in early modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumour-mongering. Adam Fox argues that while the spoken word provides the most vivid insight into the mental world of the majority in this semi-literate society, it was by no means untouched by written influences. Even at the beginning of the period, centuries of reciprocal infusion between complementary media had created a cultural repertoire which had long ceased to be purely oral. Thereafter, the expansion of literacy together with the proliferation of texts both in manuscript and print saw the rapid acceleration and elaboration of this process. By 1700 popular traditions and modes of expression were the product of a fundamentally literate environment to a much greater extent than has yet been appreciated.
Book Synopsis The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by : Iona Opie
Download or read book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren written by Iona Opie and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."
Book Synopsis Reading Children in Early Modern Culture by : Edel Lamb
Download or read book Reading Children in Early Modern Culture written by Edel Lamb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, early modern literature and the history of reading. Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer books, religious narratives, romance, anthologies, school books, drama, translations and autobiography) alongside evidence of the reading experiences of those defined as children in the period, it explores the production of different categories of child readers. Focusing on the ‘good child’ reader, the youth as consumer, ways of reading as a boy and as a girl, and the retrospective recollection of childhood reading, it sheds new light on the ways in which childhood and reading were understood and experienced in the period.
Book Synopsis The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles by : Corinne Dale
Download or read book The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles written by Corinne Dale and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.
Book Synopsis The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by :
Download or read book The Journal of English and Germanic Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amorous Games by : James Woodrow Hassell
Download or read book Amorous Games written by James Woodrow Hassell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the more interesting incunabula preserved in the Salle de la Réserve of the Bibliothèque National in Paris are the apparently unique copies of two editions, very similar in content, of a work entitled Les Adevineaux amoureux. In much more comprehensive form Les Adevineaux amoureux is preserved in a manuscript belonging to the Musée Conde at Chantilly. All three texts, in medieval French, appear to date from the 1470s. The present work, Amorous Games, is a critical edition of Les Adevineaux amoureux. Amorous Games is a miscellany whose principal unifying force is the compiler's aim to provide a manual of conversation and entertainment for polite society. Included are series of questions and answers belonging to the well-established medieval tradition of the "Demandes amoureuses"; a very large number of riddles, mainly folk riddles; and "venditions en amours," little poems that apparently came into bing as part of a social game. Students of medieval French literature, particularly those with a penchant for some of the minor genres, will find new material in the Amorous Games. Folklorists will discover what is probably the largest collection of riddles bequeathed to us by medieval France and also much that is of value to specialists in the proverb and folk tale. For this critical edition of Les Adevineaux amoureux Professor Hassell has selected the Chantilly manuscript, because it is the most complete and also because it had not yet been published. The Appendix contains the text of the more complete of the two incunabula and the significant variants appearing in the other fifteenth-century printed edition. The manuscript text has been collated with that of the incunabula, and copious notes and an index to the riddles have been supplied. In his introduction Professor Hassell discusses in detail the major classes and subclasses of the riddle, drawing on the work of Petsch, Taylor, Abrahams, and other scholars of the genre.
Download or read book Englische Studien written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly).