Old English literature : critical essays / edited by R.M. Liuzza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liuzza, R. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recognizing the dramatic changes in Old English studies over the past generation, this up-to-date anthology gathers twenty-one outstanding contemporary critical writings on the prose and poetry of Anglo-Saxon England, from approximately the seventh through eleventh centuries. The contributors focus on texts most commonly read in introductory Old English courses while also engaging with larger issues of Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and scholarship. Their approaches vary widely, encompassing disciplines from linguistics to psychoanalysis. In an appealing introduction to the book, R. M. Liuzza presents an overview of Old English studies, the history of the scholarship, and major critical themes in the field. For both newcomers and more advanced scholars of Old English, these essays will provoke discussion, answer questions, provide background, and inspire an appreciation for the complexity and energy of Anglo-Saxon studies.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word

The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity Before the Norman Conquest

Orality and the Developing Text of Caedmon's Hymn

Reading Cædmon's "Hymn" with Someone Else's Glosses

Birthing Bishops and Fathering Poets: Bede, Hild, and the Relations of Cultural Production

Kinship and Lordship in Early Medieval England: The Story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard

The Thematic Structure of the Sermo Lupi

Social Idealism in Ælfric's Colloquy

The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry

Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught

The Editing of Old English Poetic Texts: Questions of Style

Anglo-Saxons on the Mind

Sundor æt Rune: The Voluntary Exile of The Wanderer

From Plaint to Praise: Language as Cure in "The Wanderer"

The Form and Structure of The Seafarer

En/closed Subjects: The Wife's Lament and the Culture of Early Medieval Female Monasticism

The Devotional Context of the Cross Before A.D. 1000

Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood

God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon

Maldon and Mythopoesis

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611729448

9781281729446

1281729442

9780300129113

0300129114

OCLC:

923588801