A History Of Old English Literature

Author : Robert D. Fulk,Christopher M. Cain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118441121

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A History of Old English Literature by Robert D. Fulk,Christopher M. Cain Pdf

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.

Author : Stanley B. Greenfield,Daniel G. Calder
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814732625

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A New Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. Greenfield,Daniel G. Calder Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1551113228

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A History of Old English Literature by Michael Alexander Pdf

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.

Author : John D. Niles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118598832

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Old English Literature by John D. Niles Pdf

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 : Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193320

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The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge Pdf

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Author : Daniel Donoghue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776803

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Old English Literature by Daniel Donoghue Pdf

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).

Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316175095

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The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature by Clare A. Lees Pdf

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.

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551118949

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An Introduction to Middle English by R.D. Fulk Pdf

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.

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597522601

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Woman As Hero In Old English Literature by Jane Chance Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037463002

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Old English Literature by Michael Alexander Pdf

Author : Charles D. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521419093

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The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature by Charles D. Wright Pdf

Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781912997947

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

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”.

Author : Stanley B. Greenfield
Publisher : [New York] : New York University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : MINN:31951001402304B

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A Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. Greenfield Pdf

A critical study of the background and achievements of English literature from its origins in the sixth century to its continuing influence after the Norman Conquest.

Author : C. L. Wrenn
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393097684

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A Study of Old English Literature by C. L. Wrenn Pdf

Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470659847

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Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker Pdf

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