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Textual Reception and Cultural Debate in Medieval English Studies

Author : María José Esteve Ramos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527522442

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This book is a rigorous and broad update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. The volume, written by some of the best known experts in this field, addresses different issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others. Its contents will be particularly useful for those interested in the different perspectives of current research in the field, exhorting the reader to consider the relationship of the medieval textual heritage and language with both its contemporary medieval audience and the readers of the 21st century. This book will appeal to specialists in Old and Middle English language and literature and also to university students. In contrast with monographs, which focus on a specific aspect, these essays allow a broader panorama of what is being done and the approaches currently being used.

A Handbook of Middle English Studies

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118328767

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A Handbook of Middle English Studies by Marion Turner Pdf

A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across that contemporary cultural terrain.” James Simpson, Harvard University “Marion Turner has skilfully choreographed an exciting ensemble of fresh accounts of the English Middle Ages. We see the period in a new light that shows with compassion and imagination, as well as thoughtful scholarship, how the literature of the past speaks to contemporary preoccupations.” Ardis Butterfield, Yale University “Strikingly original: theory-literate and materially-grounded ways of reading Middle English texts.” David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania A Handbook of Middle English Studies presents twenty-six original and accessible essays by leading scholars, analyzing the relationship between critical theory and late-medieval literature. The collection offers a range of entry points into the rich field of medieval literary studies, exploring subjects including the depiction of the self and the mind, the literature of conquest, ideas of beauty and aesthetics, and the relationship between place and literature. Topics that have long been central to the field, such as authorship, gender, and race, feature alongside areas only recently coming under critical scrutiny, such as globalization, the environment, and animality. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the manuscript culture of late medieval literature raises key theoretical issues concerning the relationship between authors, texts, and readers. A Handbook of Middle English Studies models diverse approaches to medieval texts and stakes a claim in debates about topics ranging from class to the canon, from imagination to nationhood, from sexuality to the public sphere.

Mostly Medieval

Author : Piotr P. Chruszczewski,Hans Sauer,Magdalena Bator,Andrew Breeze,Dominika Buchowska,Katarzyna Buczek,Radosław Dylewski,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk,Joanna Esquibel,Piotr Gąsiorowski,Adam Jezierski,Magdalena Kizeweter,Aleksandra R. Knapik,Barbara Kowalik,Tomasz P. Krzeszowski,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Janusz Malak,Rory McTurk,Rafal Molencki,Jerzy Nykiel,Dawid Pietrala,Joanna Rabęda,Aleksander Szwedek,Peter Trudgill,Letizia Vezzosi,Andrzej Wicher,Alicja Witalisz,Anna Wojtyś
Publisher : Æ Academic Publishing
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781683461869

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Mostly Medieval by Piotr P. Chruszczewski,Hans Sauer,Magdalena Bator,Andrew Breeze,Dominika Buchowska,Katarzyna Buczek,Radosław Dylewski,Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk,Joanna Esquibel,Piotr Gąsiorowski,Adam Jezierski,Magdalena Kizeweter,Aleksandra R. Knapik,Barbara Kowalik,Tomasz P. Krzeszowski,Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Janusz Malak,Rory McTurk,Rafal Molencki,Jerzy Nykiel,Dawid Pietrala,Joanna Rabęda,Aleksander Szwedek,Peter Trudgill,Letizia Vezzosi,Andrzej Wicher,Alicja Witalisz,Anna Wojtyś Pdf

Vita mortuorum in memoria vivorum — volume 5 of the Beyond Language series is dedicated to the memory of Professor Jacek Fisiak, one of the titans in English historical linguistics in Poland and beyond. For over 40 years, he taught at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he established a stronghold of English studies in Europe. His efforts were appreciated with medals, awards, honorific titles, and mentoring positions amongst academic bodies. “The present In Memoriam volume undoubtedly counts among the all-encompassing and much-expected individual and collective acts of commemoration to recognize the authority of Professor Jacek Fisiak—the great scientist, the indefatigable Organizer, Manager and Mentor, relentless of any adversity or difficulty; the person whose countless contributions and merits in the history of Polish humanities – especially in the field of philological sciences and English studies in Poland – cannot be overestimated. […] On the one hand, the articles included in the volume yield a multidimensional testimony of the authors' scientific kinship with Professor Fisiak's broad scientific interests. On the other, they present a whole range of individual philological inquiries, starting from texts whose synthetic theoretical overtones prove the rich experience of their authors, through the articles of a more general nature, to prolegomena stimulating further in-depth scientific analyses. […]” (from the review by prof. Grzegorz Kleparski)_____TABLE OF CONTENTS_____Jacek Fisiak 1936–2019____ MENTOR in Academia: The Master in Title and Reality―by Joanna M. Esquibel____PART II. Old and Middle English Literature | Campbell’s “Art of Parallelism” in Old English Poetry: A Reappraisal―by Rory McTurk | The Question of Beowulf’s Relation to Fairy Tales Revisited―by Andrzej Wicher | Cornish Symptoms in the Old English Orosius―by Andrew Breeze | When a Lexical Borrowing Becomes an Ideological Tool: The Case of Saint Erkenwald―by Letizia Vezzosi | Medieval Multitasking: Hoccleve Translates Christine de Pizan and Imitates Chaucer, For Example his Binomials―by Hans Sauer | Mimetic Desires in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur―by Barbara Kowalik____PART III. Old and Middle English language and historical linguistics | Selected Elements of Language Change―by Aleksandra R. Knapik | For and Against Anglo-Frisian: The Linguistic Debate on the Matter―by Katarzyna Buczek | On Speech and Discourse Communities in the Viking Age―by Piotr P. Chruszczewski | East Anglia as an Old English and Middle English Dialect Area―by Peter Trudgill | Middle English Voiced Fricatives Revisited―by Piotr Gąsiorowski | From Where Did the Death of the English Inflection Come?―by Janusz Malak | On the Expansion of the Old Norse Root hap- in Middle English―by Rafał Molencki | So that in Clauses of Result and Purpose in Old English and Middle English―by Jerzy Nykie____PART IV. Adapting Earlier English for Modern Times | Adapting Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Drama for Theatre―by Magdalena Kizeweter, Anna Wojtyś | Medieval Modernism and the New Age Magazine: Creating Modernity While Turning to the Past―by Dominika Buchowska____PART V. Modern English, contrastive studies, and translation studies | Variation in the Use of the 3rd Person Singular Marker in American Private Letters from the mid-19th Century―by Radoslaw Dylewski, Magdalena Bator, Joanna Rabęda | The NAD Phonotactic Calculator: An Online Tool to Calculate Cluster Preferability Across Languages―by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Dawid Pietrala | Event Construal in Some English Middle and Reflexive Constructions and Their Polish Counterparts―by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | Problems in Studying Loan-Translations―by Alicja Witalisz | When do nouns control sentence stress placement?―by Aleksander Szwedek____PART VI. Notes on Contributors | Index

Beowulf in Contemporary Culture

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527544062

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This collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture across a wide range of forms. The last 15 years have seen an intensification of scholarly interest in medievalism and reimaginings of the Middle Ages. However, in spite of the growing prominence of medievalism both in academic discourse and popular culture—and in spite of the position Beowulf itself holds in both areas—no study such as this has yet been undertaken. Beowulf in Contemporary Culture therefore makes a significant contribution both to early medieval studies and to our understanding of Beowulf’s continuing cultural impact. It should inspire further research into this topic and medievalist responses to other aspects of early medieval culture. Topics covered here range from film and television to video games, graphic novels, children’s literature, translations, and versions, along with original responses published here for the first time. The collection not only provides an overview of the positions Beowulf holds in the contemporary imagination, but also demonstrates the range of avenues yet to be explored, or even fully acknowledged, in the study of medievalism.

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Author : Pascal Hohaus,Rainer Schulze
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260529

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Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions by Pascal Hohaus,Rainer Schulze Pdf

Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.

A History of Old English Literature

Author : Robert D. Fulk,Christopher M. Cain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470692837

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A History of Old English Literature by Robert D. Fulk,Christopher M. Cain Pdf

This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo-Saxon culture. Responds to renewed emphasis on historical and cultural contexts in the field of medieval studies. Treats virtually the entire range of textual types preserved in Old English. Considers the production, reception and uses of Old English texts. Integrates the Anglo-Latin backgrounds crucial to understanding Old English literature. Offers very extensive bibliographical guidance. Demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates.

Textual Cultures, Cultural Texts

Author : Orietta Da Rold,Elaine M. Treharne,Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842392

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Textual Cultures, Cultural Texts by Orietta Da Rold,Elaine M. Treharne,Elaine Treharne Pdf

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

Strange Words

Author : Margaret Jewett Burland
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268076276

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Strange Words offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying particular attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. In this clearly written and accessible book, Margaret Jewett Burland focuses on discourse and narrative within the fictional universe to argue persuasively that medieval authors and audiences understood the battle of Roncevaux and its aftermath as an appropriate story in which to incorporate implicit commentaries about contemporary issues. It allows readers to interpret the well-known Oxford version, The Song of Roland, within the expanded context of its larger medieval textual tradition. The similarities and differences among the four versions Burland analyzes help modern readers to better appreciate which aspects of a given Roland text are most innovative and thus most suggestive of its particular political, social, or literary agenda. Strange Words is the first book in fifty years to compare multiple medieval Roland texts, and the first to do so in English. It will be welcomed by students and scholars of French and medieval studies.

Revisiting the Medieval North of England

Author : Anita Auer,Denis Renevey,Camille Marshall,Tino Oudesluijs
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786833952

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Revisiting the Medieval North of England by Anita Auer,Denis Renevey,Camille Marshall,Tino Oudesluijs Pdf

The medieval north of England has been underexplored to date, and this volume may be seen as an invitation for further exploration. It brings together scholars with shared interests in language, literature, culture, history and manuscript studies, viewed from different disciplinary perspectives such as English philology, historical linguistics and medieval literature. While many scholars have thus far been debating the dividing lines between north and south as well as between north, Midlands and south, the contributors to this volume are interested in texts produced in the north, the providence of which has been determined by way of affiliation to religious and civic writing centres including the important monastic houses in the north (such as Durham, York and the Yorkshire Cistercian houses). Most of the contributions grow out of recent and ongoing research projects that touch upon different aspects of the north of England in the medieval period. Concentrating on the north as a centre of manuscript production, dissemination and reception, this volume aims also at illustrating the fluidity of boundaries and communication, and the resulting links to different geographical regions.

Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813915082

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Textual Criticism and Middle English Texts by Tim William Machan Pdf

Textual-Critical studies of medieval English literature have primarily focused on practical matters such as transcription, collation, recension, and the identification of scribal hands. But the theory of editing medieval English works remains largely unexplored. Tim William Machan addresses this void by setting out to articulate the textual and cultural factors that distinctively characterize Middle English works as Middle English and to reveal the role these factors play in editing and interpretation of these works. In revealing how the creation of textual criticism affected the transmission of Middle English, this book will be of interest and accessible to readers relatively new to both textual criticism and Middle English. It will also be of vital importance to specialists in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, and textual criticism.

Readings in Medieval Texts

Author : David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261636

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Readings in Medieval Texts by David Frame Johnson,Elaine M. Treharne Pdf

Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.

The Book Unbound

Author : Siân Echard,Stephen Partridge,Stephen Bradford Partridge
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802087566

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The Book Unbound by Siân Echard,Stephen Partridge,Stephen Bradford Partridge Pdf

Contemporaries of Erasmus contains biographical information about more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and other writings of Erasmus. This paperback edition is a reprint of the three-volume set published between 1985 and 1987. The volumes have been combined into a single volume ? without any editorial changes ? to provide a manageable and affordable edition of a magisterial work. The remarkable breadth of Erasmus? contacts throughout his life is reflected in this unique volume. Differing substantially from the national biographical dictionaries that restrict themselves to major figures, Contemporaries of Erasmus combines the famous with the obscure ? popes and politicians, artists and poets, knights and theologians ? covering every individual mentioned whose death occurred after the year 1450. Well known figures include Martin Luther, King Henry VIII, Machiavelli, Popes Nicholas V and Peter IV, and Emperor Charles V. Dipping into the pages of this fully illustrated volume will intrigue and delight the casual reader, but the combined volume will also be an indispensible tool for those who have searched in vain for a biographical dictionary of the Renaissance and the Reformation.

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature

Author : Raluca Radulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429588983

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature by Raluca Radulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume: Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture. Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts. This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

Living Through Conquest

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191640209

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Living Through Conquest by Elaine Treharne Pdf

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. Living through Conquest is the first ever investigation of the political clout of English from the reign of Cnut to the earliest decades of the thirteenth century. It focuses on why and how the English language was used by kings and their courts and by leading churchmen and monastic institutions at key moments from 1020 to 1220. English became the language of choice of a usurper king; the language of collective endeavour for preachers and prelates; and the language of resistance and negotiation in the post-Conquest period. Analysing texts that are not widely known, such as Cnut's two Letters to the English of 1020 and 1027, Worcester's Confraternity Agreement, and the Eadwine Psalter, alongside canonical writers like Ælfric and Wulfstan, Elaine Treharne demonstrates the ideological significance of the native vernacular and its social and cultural relevance alongside Latin, and later, French. While many scholars to date have seen the period from 1060 to 1220 as a literary lacuna as far as English is concerned, this book demonstrates unequivocally that the hundreds of vernacular works surviving from this period attest to a lively and rich textual tradition. Living Through Conquest addresses the political concerns of English writers and their constructed audiences, and investigates the agenda of manuscript producers, from those whose books were very much in the vein of earlier English codices to those innovators who employed English precisely to demonstrate its contemporaneity in a multitude of contexts and for a variety of different audiences.

Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England

Author : Marisa Libbon
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814214703

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Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England by Marisa Libbon Pdf

Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature.