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Old English literature : critical essays /
Recognising the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this anthology gathers 21 outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the 7th to the 11th centuries. The chapters focus on texts most commonly read in i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2002]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Introduction; Abbreviations; The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England; Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word; The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity Before the Norman Conquest; Orality and the Developing Text of Caedmon's Hymn; Reading Caedmon's Hymn with Someone Else's Glosses; Birthing Bishops and Fathering Poets: Bede, Hild, and the Relations of Cultural Production; Kinship and Lordship in Early Medieval England: The Story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard; The Thematic Structure of the Sermo Lupi; Social Idealism in Ælfric's Colloquy
- The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry; Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught; The Editing of Old English Poetic Texts: Questions of Style; Anglo-Saxons on the Mind; Sundor aet Rune: The Voluntary Exile of The Wanderer; From Plaint to Praise: Language as Cure in 'The Wanderer'; The Form and Structure of The Seafarer; En/closed Subjects: The Wife's Lament and the Culture of Early Medieval Female Monasticism; The Devotional Context of the Cross Before A.D. 1000; Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood; God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon; Maldon and Mythopoesis; Contributors; Index.