A history of Old English literature /
This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts. This revised ed...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2013.
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Edición: | Second edition. |
Colección: | Blackwell histories of literature.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Anglo-Saxon England and its literature: a social history
- The chronology and varieties of Old English literature
- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
- Literature of the Alfredian period
- Homilies
- Saints? legends (Rachel S. Anderson)
- Biblical literature
- Liturgical and devotional texts
- Legal texts
- Scientific and scholastic texts
- Wisdom literature and lyric poetry
- Germanic legend and heroic lay
- Additions, annotations, and marginalia
- Conclusion: Making Old English new: Anglo-Saxonism and the cultural work of Old English literature.