Syntax And Style In Old English

Author : S. O. Andrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107559776

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Syntax and Style in Old English by S. O. Andrew Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this book was written in 'an attempt to drive a few main lines through the almost unexplored tract of Old English syntax'. The text also reaches important conclusions regarding the characteristic features of Old English style and its close relationship with syntactical elements, both in prose and verse. Reference is frequently made to the 'traditional text' of Beowulf. That is to say, the text as it was usually punctuated by editors at the time of publication. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Old English and linguistics.

Author : Samuel Ogden Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:600890139

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Syntax and Style in Old English by Samuel Ogden Andrew Pdf

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 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Old English prose before the late tenth century is examined in this collection of hitherto unpublished essays.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 : George Watson,Ian Roy Willison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521200040

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 by George Watson,Ian Roy Willison Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : David Yerkes
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015004254887

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Syntax and Style in Old English by David Yerkes Pdf

Author : Mary Eva Blockley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : John McLaughlin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111411590

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Old English Syntax by John McLaughlin Pdf

Old English Syntax: A Handbook (Sprachstrukturen Reihe A: Historische Sprachstrukturen).

Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521469708

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Reading Old English Texts by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe Pdf

Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

Author : Charles Merritt Carlton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111354859

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Descriptive Syntax of the Old English Charters by Charles Merritt Carlton Pdf

Author : Carol Braun Pasternack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521465494

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The Textuality of Old English Poetry by Carol Braun Pasternack Pdf

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 : Andreas Lemke
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : 9783863951894

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The Old English Translation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in its Historical and Cultural Context by Andreas Lemke Pdf

Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal with the literary cornerstone of a nascent English identity at a time when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were threatened by a common enemy: the Vikings? Andreas Lemke seeks to answer these questions – among others – in his recent publication. He presents us with a unique compendium of interdisciplinary approaches to the subject and sheds new light on the Old English translation of the Historia in a way that will fascinate scholars of Literature, Language, Philology and History.

Author : Frank H. Chase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026025697

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A Bibliographical Guide to Old English Syntax by Frank H. Chase Pdf

Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature by Frederick Wilse Bateson Pdf

Author : Megan E. Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513558

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Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon by Megan E. Hartman Pdf

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 : Kiriko Sato
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.