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How the Anglo-Saxons read their poems /
"How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems uncovers a sophisticated collaboration between scribes and the earliest readers of poems like Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Dream of the Rood. In addressing a basic question that no previous study has adequately answered, it pursues an ambitious synthesis...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Collection: | Middle Ages series.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems uncovers a sophisticated collaboration between scribes and the earliest readers of poems like Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Dream of the Rood. In addressing a basic question that no previous study has adequately answered, it pursues an ambitious synthesis of a number of fields usually kept separate: oral theory, paleography, syntax, and prosody. To these philological topics Daniel Donoghue adds insights from the growing field of cognitive psychology. According to Donoghue, the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled them to navigate a daunting task with apparent ease. For them reading was both a matter of technical proficiency and a social practice."--Provided by publisher |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812294880 0812294882 |