Old English literature : a guide to criticism with selected readings /
By: Niles, John D [author.].
Series: Blackwell guides to criticism: Publisher: West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016Description: xv, 336 pages ; 28 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780631220565; 9780631220565:; 0631220569; 9780631220572; 0631220577; 1118598830; 9781118598832.Subject(s): English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism | English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Criticism -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 809 NILItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and indexes.
Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Main Currents in Twentieth-Century Criticism ; Chapter 1 Old English Studies 1901-1975 ; The Earlier Twentieth Century; Literary Criticism: A Slow Start; Two Scholars Representative of their Eras; New Directions after the Second World War; Changing Currents in Beowulf Studies; Key Works from the Early Seventies; For Further Reading; Part II Anglo-Saxon Lore and Learning ; Chapter 2 Literacy and Latinity ; Anglo-Latin Literature: Background or Mainstream? ; Education in Two Languages.
The Student in the ClassroomThe Venerable Bede; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading ; Joyce Hill, 'Learning Latin in Anglo-Saxon England: Traditions, Texts and Techniques' (2003) ; Chapter 3 Textuality and Cultural Transformations ; The Anglo-Saxon Book: Icon or Pragmatic Object? ; Writerly Self-Reflexivity ; Reading Old English Texts in their Manuscript Context; Authors and Scribes: The Flux of Texts; From Latin to Old English: Translation or Transformation?; Source Studies and the Culture of Translation; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading.
M.B. Parkes, 'The Palaeography of the Parker Manuscript of the Chronicle, Laws, and Sedulius, and Historiography at Winchester in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries' (1976) Chapter 4 Orality ; Parry, Lord, and their Legacy; Oral Poetics and Noetics; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading; Donald K. Fry, 'The Memory of Caedmon' (1981) ; Chapter 5 Heroic Tradition ; Short Poems on Legendary Themes; Brunanburh, Maldon, and the Critics; Beowulf and the Critics; Indeterminacy and its Discontents; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading.
Ernst Leisi, 'Gold and Human Worth in Beowulf ', first published as'Gold und Manneswert im Beowulf ' (1952) Part III Other Topics and Approaches; Chapter 6 Style ; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading; J.R. Hall, 'Perspective and Wordplay in the Old English Rune Poem' (1977) ; Chapter 7 Theme ; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading; Hugh Magennis, 'Images of Laughter in Old English Poetry, with Particular Reference to the Hleahtor Wera of The Seafarer' (1992) ; Chapter 8 Genre and Gender ; Genre; Gender; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading.
Lisa M.C. Weston, 'Women's Medicine, Women's Magic:The Old English Metrical Childbirth Charms' (1995) Chapter 9 Saints' Lives and Christian Devotion ; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading; Edward B. Irving, Jr, 'Crucifixion Witnessed, or Dramatic Interactionin The Dream of the Rood' (1986) ; Chapter 10 Ælfric ; A Selection from the Criticism; For Further Reading; Malcolm Godden, 'Apocalypse and Invasion in Late Anglo- SaxonEngland' (1994) ; Chapter 11 Translating, Editing, and Making it New ; Translating; Editing; Making it New; A Selection from the Criticism.
This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline.