On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems - 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 On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems write by John M. Hill. This book was released on 2010-01-01. On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry? While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to be exceptional literary achievements - Beowulf, Judith, the Vercelli book - there has been little systematic investigation of the basis for these appraisals. With new essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos, and reader response, the contributors to this collection aim to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form.
Old English Poetics
Old English Poetics - 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 Poetics write by Elizabeth M. Tyler. This book was released on 2006. Old English Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places: they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach to Old English poetics, the author argues that the apparent timelessness and stability of Old English poetic convention is a striking historical phenomenon that must be accounted for, not assumed, and that the perceived conservatism of Old English poetic conventions is the result of choice. Successive generations of poets deliberately maintained the traditionality of Old English poetry, putting it into dialogue with contemporary conditions to express critique and dissent as well as nostalgia. The author makes particularuse of the rich language of treasure to be found in Anglo-Saxon verse to historicise her argument, but her argument has wide implications for how we approach the role of tradition in the poetry of earlier societies. DrELIZABETH TYLER teaches in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
The Interpretation of Old English Poems
The Interpretation of Old English Poems - 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 Interpretation of Old English Poems write by Stanley B. Greenfield. This book was released on 1972. The Interpretation of Old English Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hero and Exile
Hero and Exile - 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 Hero and Exile write by Greenfield,. This book was released on 1989-07-01. Hero and Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, bibliographer and literary critic, Stanley Brian Greenfield, Professor of English at the University of Oregon, one of the founders of the annual Anglo-Saxon England and of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, died in 1987. He wrote primarily on Anglo-Saxon topics as well as later English poetry. He deeply explored the Old English poetic corpus, pointing out important meanings and qualities in insightful and sensitive readings. Hero and Exile brings together some of his most important essays, divided into three sections - Beowulfian Studies, The Old English Elegies and The Theme of Exile - attesting to his long and fruitful engagement with Old English literature.
"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems
"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems - 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 "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems write by Craig Williamson. This book was released on 2011-06-30. "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter. Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.
