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Author : Marie Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004488618
Author : Russell Gilbert Poole
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Paul Cavill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Eleni Ponirakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514418
Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed in Old English poetry and prose, this study identifies new patterns and offers new perspectives. In these texts, the performance of right or wrong action is not linked to natural inclination dictated by birth; it is the fruit of right or wrong thinking. The mind consciously directed and controlled is open to external influences, both human and diabolical. This struggle to produce right thought and action reflects an emerging democratization of heroism that crosses societal and gender boundaries, becoming intertwined with socio-political, soteriological, and cultural meaning. In a study of influential prose texts, including the Alfredian translations and the sermons of Ælfric, alongside close readings of three poems from different genres – The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and Juliana –, Ponirakis demonstrates how early medieval authors create patterns of interaction between the mental and the physical. These provide hidden keys to meaning which, once found, unlock new readings of much studied texts. In addition, these patterns of balance, distribution, and opposition, reveal a startling similarity of approach across genre and form, taking the discussion of the early medieval conception of the mind, soul, and emotion, not to mention conventional generic divisions, onto new ground.
Author : Elise Louviot
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Michael Lapidge,Malcolm Godden,Simon Keynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052141380X
This volume illustrates some of the exciting paths of enquiry in Anglo-Saxon studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489127
Author : Victoria Symons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110492774
This book presents the first comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon manuscript texts containing runic letters. To date there has been no comprehensive study of these works in a single volume, although the need for such an examination has long been recognized. This is in spite of a growing academic interest in the mise-en-page of early medieval manuscripts. The texts discussed in this study include Old English riddles and elegies, the Cynewulfian poems, charms, Solomon and Saturn I, and the Old English Rune Poem. The focus of the discussion is on the literary analysis of these texts in their palaeographic and runological contexts. Anglo-Saxon authors and scribes did not, of course, operate within a vacuum, and so these primary texts are considered alongside relevant epigraphic inscriptions, physical objects, and historical documents. Victoria Symons argues that all of these runic works are in various ways thematically focused on acts of writing, visual communication, and the nature of the written word. The conclusion that emerges over the course of the book is that, when encountered in the context of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, runic letters consistently represent the written word in a way that Roman letters do not.
Author : John D. Niles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118598832
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 : 橋本修一
Publisher : 春風社
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 4861100607
「キリスト教と異教」の観点で古典を読む
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015057952973
Author : A. B. Crowder
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9051831927
Author : Carol Braun Pasternack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521465494
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work versus text and the author. The modern reader knows this literature as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack offers an alternative approach which takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts, using the term 'inscribed' to define texts which are situated between oral inheritance and print. In a detailed examination of texts throughout the canon she explores the ways in which readers construct poems in the process of reading and in addition she extends her analysis to the question of authorship, arguing that the texts do not imply an author but rather imply tradition as the source of their authority.
Author : Leslie K. Arnovick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1556199465
The purpose of "Diachronic Pragmatics" is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these "illocutionary biographies" manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in "Diachronic Pragmatics" highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline.
Author : Paul G. Remley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521474542
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
