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Author : Leonard Neidorf,Rafael J. Pascual,T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844389
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.
Author : Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876984
The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid-12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with in the 21st century. Features of the book include: the provision of accessible guides to some important 'problem topics' of classical OE stimulating cross-linguistic comparisons, e.g. the pronoun system of OE as compared with the pronoun system of present day Dutch cleverly laid out translation exercises, with structural help in the form of selective glossaries careful division into eight units, designed for both classroom use and self-study Written in a clear and accessible manner, The Earliest English provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English language and literature, and will be an invaluable textbook for students of English Language and Linguistics.
Author : Shōichi Watanabe,Tetsuji Oda,Hiroyuki Eto
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3034304803
This collection of articles covers a wide range of topics in English philology and history of linguistics. The volume proceeds from Old English studies offering a unique perspective and approach in literary and linguistic research into Anglo-Saxon England. Two articles deal with English phonology from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and another with a theoretical discussion of etymological inquiry. The last section contains three articles focusing on the history of linguistics or the history of ideas. The wide range of topics addressed in the 12 chapters of this volume reflects the diversity of interests in the research efforts of Shoichi Watanabe, professor emeritus at Sophia University, to whom this volume is dedicated by his former students. He is not only highly valued as a distinguished professor of English philology, but also acknowledged for his critique of civilization with his unique view of history and culture.
Author : Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521866774
A clear introduction to English between the 5th century and 1066, specifically designed for use on one-term course modules.
Author : Stephen Pollington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : UOM:39015055181245
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.
Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470659847
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
Author : Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:686941702
Author : Roger Lass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582497
Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. It is also an introduction to Indo-European studies in the particular sense in which they underpin the history of English. Professor Roger Lass makes accessible in a linguistically up-to-date and readable form the Indo-European and Germanic background to Old English, as well as what can be reconstructed about the resulting state of Old English itself. His book is a bridge between the more elementary Old English grammars and the major philological grammars and recent interpretations of the Old English data.Old English assumes a basic knowledge of phonetics and phonology, the elements of syntactic and morphological theory, and an introduction to historical linguistics. An extensive glossary gives definitions of the major technical terms used.
Author : Thomas D. Hill,Frederick M. Biggs,Charles Darwin Wright,Thomas N. Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802093677
As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdom have assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old English poetry and prose as well as early medieval Latin, touching upon many of Hill's specific research interests. Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and 'sapiential' poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament are treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis. Prose writers of the period such as King Alfred and Wærferth, as well as medieval Latin writers such as Bede and Pseudo-Methodius are also discussed. As an added feature, the volume includes a bibliography of publications by Thomas D. Hill. Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development.
Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843870
Examinations of the date of Beowulf have tremendous significance for Anglo-Saxon culture in general.
Author : Bruce Mitchell,Fred C. Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119950271
A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners’ guide. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Old English Uses a practical approach suited to the needs of the beginning student Features selections from the greatest works of Old English literature, organized from simple to more challenging texts to keep pace with the reader Includes a discussion of Anglo-Saxon literature, history, and culture, and a bibliography directing readers to useful publications on the subject Updated throughout with new material including the first 25 lines from Beowulf with detailed annotation and an explanation of Grimm’s and Verner’s laws
Author : R. D. Fulk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512802221
In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.
Author : Malcolm Godden,Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193320
This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.
Author : H. Momma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521518864
An exploration of how philology contributed to the study of English language and literature in the nineteenth century.
Author : Alice Jorgensen,Frances McCormack,Jonathan Wilcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317180883
Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant contributions to the study of Anglo-Saxon mental and emotional life, with younger scholars. The volume presents a tight focus - on emotion (rather than psychological life more generally), on Anglo-Saxon England and on language and literature - with contrasting approaches that will open up debate. The volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture. Each chapter asks questions about what is culturally distinctive about emotion in Anglo-Saxon England and what interpretative moves have to be made to read emotion in Old English texts, as well as considering how ideas about and representations of emotion might relate to lived experience. Taken together the essays in this collection indicate the current state of the field and preview important work to come. By exploring methodologies and materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon emotions, particularly focusing on Old English language and literature, it will both stimulate further study within the discipline and make a distinctive contribution to the wider interdisciplinary conversation about emotions.
