Anglo-Saxon Studies offers a systematic study of modern attempts to recover the cultural heritage of early medieval England starting from the post-Conquest origins of this discipline and continuing into the twenty-first century.
Taal / Language : English
Inhoudsopgave:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part I. Main Currents in Twentieth-Century Criticism
Chapter 1. Old English Studies 1901 1975
The earlier twentieth century
Literary criticism: a slow start
Two scholars representative of their eras
New directions post World War II
Changing currents in Beowulf studies
Key works from the early seventies
Part II. Anglo-Saxon Lore and Learning
Chapter 2. Literacy and Latinity
Anglo-Latin literature: background or mainstream?
Education in two languages
The student in the classroom
The Venerable Bede
Excerpt: Joyce Hill, Learning Latin in Anglo-Saxon England
Chapter 3. Textuality and Cultural Transformations
The Anglo-Saxon book: icon or pragmatic object?
Writerly self-reflexivity
Reading Old English texts in their manuscript context
Authors and scribes: the flux of texts
From Latin to Old English: translation or transformation?
Source studies and the culture of translation
Excerpt: M.B. Parkes, The Palaeography of the Parker Manuscript
Chapter 4. Orality
Parry, Lord, and their legacy
Oral poetics and noetics
Reading: Donald K. Fry, The Memory of Cædmon
Chapter 5. Heroic Tradition
Short poems on legendary themes
Brunanburh, Maldon and the critics
Beowulf and the critics
Indeterminacy and its discontents
Reading: Ernst Leisi, Gold and Human Worth in Beowulf
Part III. Other Topics and Approaches
Chapter 6. Style
Reading: J.R. Hall, Perspective and Wordplay in the Rune Poem
Chapter 7. Theme
Reading: Hugh Magennis, Images of Laughter
Chapter 8. Genre and Gender
Reading: Lisa M.C. Weston, Women s Medicine, Women s Magic
Chapter 9. Saints Lives and Christian Devotion
Reading: Edward B. Irving, Jr, Crucifixion Witnessed
Chapter 10. Ælfric
Excerpt: Malcolm Godden, Apocalypse and Invasion
Chapter 11. Translating, Editing, and Making It New
Reading: Joshua Byron Smith, Borges and Old English
Afterword
Select Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors Cited
General Index
Hardback
352 pagina's
Januari 2016
920 gram
244 x 170 x 35 mm
Wiley-Blackwell

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