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Author : Paul Cavill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915417
A study of maxims - what they are, why and when they are used - based on detailed investigation of issues, texts and formulas.
Author : Richard Marsden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107055308
This groundbreaking reader of Old English prose and verse has been extensively revised for the second edition.
Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Didactic poetry, English (Old)
ISBN : UOM:39076005333948
Author : Antonina Harbus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488137
Ideas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry a particular cultural focus on the mental world and formulates a multivalent model of the mind behind it, as the seat of emotions, the site of temptation, the container of knowledge, and a heroic weapon. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry treats a wide range of Old English literary genres (in the context of their Latin sources and analogues where applicable) in order to discover how ideas about the mind shape the narrative, didactic, and linguistic design of poetic discourse. Particular attention is paid to the rich and slippery vernacular vocabulary for the mind which suggests a special interest in the subject in Old English poetry. The book argues that Anglo-Saxon poets were acutely conscious of mental functions and perceived the psychological basis not only of the cognitive world, but also of the emotions and of the spiritual life.
Author : Russell Gilbert Poole
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915301
Bibliography and guide to scholarly literature on the genre of Old English wisdom poetry. Wisdom literature played a crucial role in the evolution of traditional societies, contributing to the structure of society and to the acceptance of new ideas within a culture, a function that has become increasingly understood. Old English wisdom literature is the focus of this volume, which offers an bibliography of the scholarly criticism between 1800 and 1990 of a group of largely secular poems comprising the metrical Charms, The Fortunes of Men, The Gifts of Men, Homiletic Fragments I and II, Maxims I and II, The Order of the World, Precepts, the metrical Proverbs, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Rune Poem, Solomon and Saturn, and Vainglory. A General Introduction investigates debates between scholars and establishes overall trends; it is followed by the bibliography proper, divided into chapters, each with its own introduction, focusing on a major text or collection of texts, with entries arranged chronologically. Dr RUSSELL POOLEteaches in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.
Author : Louis Jerome Rodrigues
Publisher : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032487434
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812293210
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures," the world of the Anglo-Saxon poets is a place of harshness, beauty, and wonder. Now for the first time, the entire Old English poetic corpus—including poems and fragments discovered only within the past fifty years—is rendered into modern strong-stress, alliterative verse in a masterful translation by Craig Williamson. Accompanied by an introduction by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on the literary scope and vision of these timeless poems and Williamson's own introductions to the individual works and his essay on translating Old English poetry, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead-hall, to share a herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation or a people's sorrow at the death of a beloved king, to be present at the clash of battle or to puzzle over the sacred and profane answers to riddles posed over a thousand years ago. This is poetry as stunning in its vitality as it is true to its sources. Were Williamson's idiom not so modern, we might think that the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing once more.
Author : Kemp Malone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015035736639
Author : R.M. Liuzza,Joseph Black,Leonard Conolly,Kate Flint,Isobel Grundy,Don LePan,Jerome J. McGann,Anne Lake Prescott,Barry V. Qualls,Claire Waters
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554811571
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.
Author : Elise Louviot
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844341
A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry.
Author : Julia Fernández Cuesta,Sara M. Pons-Sanz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110449105
Aldred’s interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.IV) is one of the most substantial representatives of the Old English variety known as late Old Northumbrian. Although it has received a great deal of attention in the past two centuries, there are still numerous issues which remain unresolved. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives – language, cultural milieu, palaeography, glossography – in order to shed light on many of these issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, the morphosyntax and vocabulary of the dialect(s) it represents, its sources and relationship to the Rushworth Gospels, and Aldred’s cultural and religious affiliations. Because of its breadth of coverage, the collection will be of interest and great value to scholars in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics.
Author : Jennifer Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139425964
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, landscapes, seas and weather with which they had to contend. She argues that poetic descriptions of these elements were not a reflection of the existing physical conditions but a literary device used by Anglo-Saxons to define more important issues: the state of humanity, the creation and maintenance of society, the power of individuals, the relationship between God and creation and the power of writing to control information. Examples of contemporary literature in other languages are used to provide a sense of Old English poetry's particular approach, which incorporated elements from Germanic, Christian and classical sources. The result of this approach was not a consistent cosmological scheme but a rather contradictory vision which reveals much about how the Anglo-Saxons viewed themselves.
Author : Israel Gollancz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341945420
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Author : Megan E. Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513688
This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional alliterative line, what effects they were able to produce with various stylistic choices, and how attention to poetic style can aid in literary analysis.
Author : Kazutomo Karasawa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844099
First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.