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Old English Literature : Critical Essays / R. M. Liuzza.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Other Authors: Liuzza, R. M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
English literature > Old English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • The Cultural Construction of Reading in Anglo-Saxon England / Howe, Nicholas
  • Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word / Kelly, Susan
  • The Making of Angelcynn: English Identity Before the Norman Conquest / Foot, Sarah
  • Orality and the Developing Text of Caedmon's Hymn / O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien
  • Reading Cædmon's "Hymn" with Someone Else's Glosses / Kiernan, Kevin S.
  • Birthing Bishops and Fathering Poets: Bede, Hild, and the Relations of Cultural Production / Lees, Clare A. / Overing, Gillian R.
  • Kinship and Lordship in Early Medieval England: The Story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard / White, Stephen D.
  • The Thematic Structure of the Sermo Lupi / Hollis, Stephanie
  • Social Idealism in Ælfric's Colloquy / Anderson, Earl R.
  • The Hero in Christian Reception: Ælfric and Heroic Poetry / Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn
  • Didacticism and the Christian Community: The Teachers and the Taught / Lees, Clare A.
  • The Editing of Old English Poetic Texts: Questions of Style / Leslie, Roy F.
  • Anglo-Saxons on the Mind / Godden, M. R.
  • Sundor æt Rune: The Voluntary Exile of The Wanderer / Bjork, Robert E.
  • From Plaint to Praise: Language as Cure in "The Wanderer" / Champion, Margrét Gunnarsdóttir
  • The Form and Structure of The Seafarer / Orton, Peter
  • En/closed Subjects: The Wife's Lament and the Culture of Early Medieval Female Monasticism / Horner, Shari
  • The Devotional Context of the Cross Before a.d. 1000 / Mcentire, Sandra
  • Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood / Pasternack, Carol Braun
  • God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon / Robinson, Fred C.
  • Maldon and Mythopoesis / Niles, John D.
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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