The Textuality of Old English Poetry
Title | The Textuality of Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2006-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521032704 |
The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences, and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack constructs a reading of the poetry that takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts. In a detailed analysis, which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, she argues that the idea of "verse sequences" should replace the "poem" and "implied tradition" should replace the idea of "the author".
The Textuality of Old English Poetry
Title | The Textuality of Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1995-07-20 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521465496 |
This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work versus text and the author. The modern reader knows this literature as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack offers an alternative approach which takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts, using the term 'inscribed' to define texts which are situated between oral inheritance and print. In a detailed examination of texts throughout the canon she explores the ways in which readers construct poems in the process of reading and in addition she extends her analysis to the question of authorship, arguing that the texts do not imply an author but rather imply tradition as the source of their authority.
Women's Literacy and Female Textuality in Old English Poetry
Title | Women's Literacy and Female Textuality in Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Shari Lynn Horner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1992 |
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Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry
Title | Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Antonina Harbus |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1843843250 |
Offers an entirely new way of interpreting and examining Anglo-Saxon texts, via theories derived from cognitive studies. A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry. Professor John Hines, Cardiff University Cognitive approaches to literature offernew and exciting ways of interpreting literature and mentalities, by bringing ideas and methodologies from Cognitive Science into the analysis of literature and culture. While these approaches are of particular value in relation to understanding the texts of remote societies, they have to date made very little impact on Anglo-Saxon Studies. This book therefore acts as a pioneer, mapping out the new field, explaining its relevance to Old English Literary Studies, and demonstrating in practice its application to a range of key vernacular poetic texts, including Beowulf, The Wanderer, and poems from the Exeter Book. Adapting key ideas from three related fields - Cognitive Literary/Cultural Studies, Cognitive Poetics, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory - in conjunction with more familiar models, derived from Literary Analysis, Stylistics, and Historical Linguistics, allows several new ways of thinking about Old English literature to emerge. It permits a systematic means of examining and accounting for the conceptual structures that underpin Anglo-Saxon poetics, as well as fuller explorations, at the level of mental processing, of the workings of literary language in context. The result is a set of approaches to interpreting Anglo-Saxon textuality, through detailed studies of the concepts, mental schemas, and associative logic implied in and triggeredby the evocative language and meaning structures of surviving works. ANTONINA HARBUS is Professor in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
The Composition of Old English Poetry
Title | The Composition of Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | H. Momma |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997-03-28 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521554817 |
This 'prosodical' syntax is intended to replace the famous syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn through its greater accuracy and wider range of application.
Alternative Readings in Old English Poetry
Title | Alternative Readings in Old English Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome Mandel |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Professor Mandel examines four Old English elegies--The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, and The Wife's Lament--from a point of view that combines rhetorical analysis (the contrastive collocation of words, phrases, and ideas) with a penetrating reading of the text. He points to new relationships among the parts of these poems and shows how they can be read in ways different from those currently accepted by the community of scholars. These «alternative readings» of Old English poetry will greatly modify the perception of all students and scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon life and culture.
Old English Literature
Title | Old English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Niles |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016-02-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118598830 |
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. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies Addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme Embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with reference to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more