A History of Old English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Old English Literature write by Robert D. Fulk. This book was released on 2013-03-06. A History of Old English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature write by Malcolm Godden. This book was released on 2013-05-02. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.
A New Critical History of Old English Literature
A New Critical History of Old English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Critical History of Old English Literature write by Stanley B. Greenfield. This book was released on 1996-05-01. A New Critical History of Old English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages (c. 700-1100). In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time. For twenty years the definitive guide to that literature has been Stanley B. Greenfield's 1965 Critical History of Old English Literature. Now this classic has been extensively revised and updated to make it more valuable than ever to both the student and scholar.
Old English Literature
Old English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old English Literature write by Daniel Donoghue. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Old English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature. Structured around ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework. Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors. Combines close textual analysis with historical context. Based on the author’s many years experience of teaching Old English literature. The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature
The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature write by Charles D. Wright. This book was released on 1993-07. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
