The Textuality Of Old English Poetry
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Author |
: Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2006-11-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521032709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521032704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Textuality of Old English Poetry by : Carol Braun Pasternack
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".
Author |
: Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1995-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521465494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521465496 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Textuality of Old English Poetry by : Carol Braun Pasternack
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.
Author |
: Antonina Harbus |
Publisher |
: DS Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843843252 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843843250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry by : Antonina Harbus
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.
Author |
: Shari Lynn Horner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D00754337T |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7T Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Literacy and Female Textuality in Old English Poetry by : Shari Lynn Horner
Author |
: Jerome Mandel |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4973316 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alternative Readings in Old English Poetry by : Jerome Mandel
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.
Author |
: John D. Niles |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 42 |
Release |
: 2016-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780631220565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0631220569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Old English Literature by : John D. Niles
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
Author |
: H. Momma |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1997-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521554810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521554817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Composition of Old English Poetry by : H. Momma
This 'prosodical' syntax is intended to replace the famous syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn through its greater accuracy and wider range of application.
Author |
: Tiffany Beechy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317021001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317021002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poetics of Old English by : Tiffany Beechy
Combining literary analysis and theoretical linguistics, Tiffany Beechy's timely and engaging study provides a critical reassessment of Old English texts that challenges the distinction between Anglo-Saxon prose and verse, ultimately recognizing an inherent poetic nature present in all Old English texts. While the poetic nature of Beowulf, due to the regular meter and heroic story, is recognized, this study demonstrates that poetry is a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought; poetic patterning can be found across the Old English corpus, both in verse and in so-called prose. Informed by Jakobsonian linguistics and oral theory, Beechy's analysis focuses on the text itself to identify unique poetic strategies. This demonstration includes a comparison between King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae and the Latin original; the poetic quality of prose homilies; poetic epistemology in law codes, riddles, and charms; and unconventional poetics even in traditional verse texts, such as the short lyric 'Deor' and the long poem Christ I. The Poetics of Old English brings interrelated developments in linguistics and literary theory to the study of Anglo-Saxon language and culture, showing that Old English texts, when considered at the level of language, are surprisingly sophisticated.
Author |
: John D. Niles |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2016-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118598832 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118598830 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Old English Literature by : John D. Niles
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
Author |
: Britt Mize |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2013-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442644687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442644680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Traditional Subjectivities by : Britt Mize
Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? Britt Mize provides the first systematic investigation into these salient questions in Traditional Subjectivities. Through close analysis of vernacular poems alongside the most informative analogues in Latin, Old English prose, and Old Saxon, this work establishes an evidence-based foundation for new thinking about the nature of Old English poetic composition, including the 'poetics of mentality' that it exhibits. Mize synthesizes two previously disconnected bodies of theory the oral-traditional theory of poetic composition, and current linguistic work on conventional language to advance our understanding of how traditional phraseology makes meaning, as well as illuminate the political and social dimensions of surviving texts, through attention to Old English poets' impulse to explore subjective perspectives.