Author: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or, Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum. And the Anglo-Saxon Remains of St. Basil's Admonitio Ad Filium Spiritualem
Author: Aelfric (Abbot of Eynsham.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Hexameron of St. Basil, Or Be Godes Six Daga Weorcum
Author: Basile de CésaréeHumour in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Author: Jonathan WilcoxPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 085991576X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ different approaches to explore humor in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter Book, and Old English saints' lives. An introductory essay provides a survey of the field, while individual essays push towards a distinctive theory of Anglo-Saxon humour. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. Contributors: JOHN D. NILES, T.A. SHIPPEY, RAYMOND P. TRIPP JR, E.L. RISDEN, D.K. SMITH, NINA RULON-MILLER, SHARI HORNER, HUGH MAGENNIS. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter. Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives. The articles are prefaced with an introduction surveying the field. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter.
Say what I Am Called
Author: Dieter BitterliPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802093523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
Beyond Nature Writing
Author: Karla ArmbrusterPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920146
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Together, their work signals a new direction in the field and offers refreshingly original insights into a broad spectrum of texts.
A Feast of Creatures
Author: Craig WilliamsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220445X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.
Reading Old English Texts
Author: Katherine O'Brien O'KeeffePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521469708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
The Riddle in the Poem
Author: Živilė GimbutasPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761828457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Riddle in the Poem is a study of the ramifications of riddles and riddle elements in the context of selected twentieth-century poetry. It includes works by Francis Ponge, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, Rainer M. Rilke, and Henrikas Radauskas. This book enlarges the scope of riddles as a "root of lyric" by connecting it with the folkloristic concept of "riddling," essentially a question and answer series, and by tracing the influence of the root in poetic methodology. The Riddle in the Poem may be defined as an attempt to advance the notion, which has been discussed in previous folkloristic and literary studies, which riddle as the root of lyric manifests itself in various ways.
The Riddles of Aldhelm
Author: Saint AldhelmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Riddles, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles
Author: Corinne DalePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844648
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.