Reading Old English Texts - Brossura

O'Keeffe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521469708 ISBN 13: 9780521469708

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.

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Descrizione del libro:

This 1997 book focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading.

Contenuti:

List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 1. The comparative approach Michael Lapidge; 2. Source study D. G. Scragg; 3. Language matters Daniel Donoghue; 4. Historicist approaches Nicholas Howe; 5. Oral tradition Andy Orchard; 6. The recovery of texts Paul E. Szarmach; 7. At a crossroads: Old English and feminist criticism Clare A. Lees; 8. Post-structuralist theories: the subject and the text Carol Braun Pasternack; 9. Old English and computing: a guided tour Peter S. Baker; Suggestions for further reading; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521469708
• ISBN 13: 9780521469708
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244