Author: Katherine O'Brien O'KeeffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Twenty Years of The Year's Work in Old English Studies
Author: Katherine O'Brien O'KeeffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Twenty years of the Year's Work in Old English Studies
Author: The Year's Work in English Studies
Author: English AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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 Discourse of Enclosure
Author: Shari HornerPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791450109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Examines representations of women and femininity in Old English poetry and prose.
The Cynewulf Reader
Author: Robert E. BjorkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134980213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.
Studies in English Language and Literature
Author: M. J. ToswellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134773390
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributors illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt wisely'. Professor Stanley's own published work has shown the utility of wise scepticism as a critical stance; these papers presented to him apply similar approaches to a wide variety of texts, most of them in the field of Old or Middle English literature. The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context, which commonly entails a reconsideration of accepted assumptions. Consequently, new links are created here among the disciplines in medieval studies, based on various combinations of these scholarly applications. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English metre and syntax, Beowulf, the origins and development of standard English, the definitions of Old English words and their connotations, the styles and themes of Old English poems, Middle English poetry and prose, the post-medieval reception of medieval works and the styles, themes and sources of Old English poetry and prose. M.J. Toswell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.E.M. Tyler is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
The Beowulf Reader
Author: Peter Stuart BakerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0815336667
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This collection of significant studies from the past 25 years of scholarship on Beowulf has been selected to represent the various approaches that have dominated Beowulf studies, and to illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism.
Cynewulf
Author: Robert E. BjorkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000526119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry. The collection contains important new statements on dates, provenance, and canon by R.D. Fulk and Patrick W. Conner, four influential essays that thoroughly explore Cynewulf's runic signature and poetic style, and major contributions to our understanding of the four signed poems of Cynewulf, Fates of the Apostles, Christ II, Juliana, and Elene. Three essays are devoted to each of these poems, and the essays themselves exemplify a broad range of approaches to this highly elusive Anglo-Saxon poet. The volume complements existing book-length treatments of the subject and will be welcome to scholars and students who need the foundations of Cynewulf scholarship at their fingertips.
Class and Gender in Early English Literature
Author: Britton J. HarwoodPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253116499
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." -- Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.