Old English Prose And Verse

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000573992

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Old English Prose and Verse by Roger Fowler Pdf

Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course. All the principal poems and prose works in this literature are represented, including more generous extracts from Beowulf than are common in anthologies of this type. By omitting texts of primarily philological and historical interest it has been possible to include enough literary texts to satisfy all but the advanced student, who will follow this volume with the specialised editions available. A departure from the traditional design of Old English anthologies is the provision of full critical and annotative apparatus. In the past it has been necessary for students to go beyond their Readers, to specialised editions or to learned articles, in order to discover even the most basic information about the extracts or their content. Here each text is accompanied by an introduction which gives brief details of (where known) date, authorship, manuscript situation, character and critical interest. Line-by-line explanatory notes are also provided, and a bibliography of books and articles for further study. The glossary aims to be more explicit about form and meaning, and easier to use than those of earlier selections.

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UCAL:B3170356

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Old English prose and verse by Roger Fowler Pdf

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674055582

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The Old English Boethius by Boethius Pdf

King Alfred's circle of scholars boldly refashioned Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into Old English, bringing it to a vernacular audience for the first time. Verse prologues and epilogues associated with the court of Alfred fill out this new edition, translated from Old English by Susan Irvine and Malcolm R. Godden.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317947608

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Old English Prose by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.

Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004726504

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Old English Verse by T. A. Shippey Pdf

Author : Antonina Harbus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488137

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The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry by Antonina Harbus Pdf

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 : Dr Tiffany Beechy
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475941

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The Poetics of Old English by Dr Tiffany Beechy Pdf

Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Anglo-Saxon prose and verse, ultimately recognizing an inherent poetic nature present in all Old English texts. While the poetic nature of Beowulf, due to the regular meter and heroic story, is recognized, this study demonstrates that poetry is a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought; poetic patterning can be found across the Old English corpus, both in verse and in so-called prose. Informed by Jakobsonian linguistics and oral theory, Beechy's analysis focuses on the text itself to identify unique poetic strategies. This demonstration includes a comparison between King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and the Latin original; the poetic quality of prose homilies; poetic epistemology in law codes, riddles, and charms; and unconventional poetics even in traditional verse texts, such as the short lyric 'Deor' and the long poem Christ I. The Poetics of Old English brings interrelated developments in linguistics and literary theory to the study of Anglo-Saxon language and culture, showing that Old English texts, when considered at the level of language, are surprisingly sophisticated.

Author : Jun Terasawa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442693845

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Old English Metre by Jun Terasawa Pdf

Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between Old English metre and components such as word-formation, word-choice, and grammar. He also covers the metre-related problems of dating, authorship, and the distinction between prose and verse. Each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide possible answers to the exercises, tips for scanning half-lines, and brief definitions of metrical terms used. Examples in Old English are provided with literal modern English translations, with glosses added in the first three chapters to help beginners. The result is a comprehensive guide that makes important text-critical skills much more readily available to Old English specialists and beginners alike.

Author : Stephanie Hollis,Michael Wright
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 0859913430

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Old English Prose of Secular Learning by Stephanie Hollis,Michael Wright Pdf

First title in a new series of annotated bibliographies -- includes prose proverbs, romances, computistical texts, Enchiridion, magico- medical literature, etc.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0873959485

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Studies in Earlier Old English Prose by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

Old English prose before the late tenth century is examined in this collection of hitherto unpublished essays. Using a variety of techniques, the authors explore well-known and lesser-known texts in search of a better understanding of why, how, and by whom the manuscripts were produced. Part I of the collection contains six studies of Alfredian prose—the Soliloquies, the Pastoral Care, and Consolation of Philosophy—all of which are translations traditionally associated with King Alfred.

Author : T.A. Shippey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000921083

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Old English Verse by T.A. Shippey Pdf

Old English Verse (1972) covers the whole range of Old English poetry: the heroic poems, notably Beowulf and Malden; the ‘elegies’, such as The Wanderer and The Seafarer; the Bible stories and the lives of the saints which mark the end of pagan influence and the beginning of Christian inspiration; the Junius Manuscript; and finally King Alfred. All the many quotations are translated.

Author : Patrick P. O’Neill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674504752

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Old English Psalms by Patrick P. O’Neill Pdf

The Latin psalms—translated into Old English—figured prominently in the lives of Anglo-Saxons, whether sung by clerics, studied as a textbook for language learning, or recited in private devotion by lay people. The complete text of all 150 prose and verse psalms is available here in contemporary English for the first time.

Author : Kiriko Sato
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039117637

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The Development from Case-forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose by Kiriko Sato Pdf

The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison between prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.

Author : Mary Eva Blockley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0252026063

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Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax by Mary Eva Blockley Pdf

"Distinguished by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose and verse. Blockley considers the functions of four of the most common and most syntactically important words in Old English, as well as such features of clauses as verb-initial order, negative contraction, and unexpressed but understood subjects. Picking up where Bruce Mitchell's classic Old English Syntax left off, Blockley shows how such common words and structures mark the relationships between phrases and clauses.".

Author : Elizabeth M. Tyler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153208

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Old English Poetics by Elizabeth M. Tyler Pdf

A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places: they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach to Old English poetics, the author argues that the apparent timelessness and stability of Old English poetic convention is a striking historical phenomenon that must be accounted for, not assumed, and that the perceived conservatism of Old English poetic conventions is the result of choice. Successive generations of poets deliberately maintained the traditionality of Old English poetry, putting it into dialogue with contemporary conditions to express critique and dissent as well as nostalgia. The author makes particularuse of the rich language of treasure to be found in Anglo-Saxon verse to historicise her argument, but her argument has wide implications for how we approach the role of tradition in the poetry of earlier societies. DrELIZABETH TYLER teaches in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.