A History of Old English Literature - Brossura

Alexander, Michael

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ISBN 10: 1551113228 ISBN 13: 9781551113227

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Alexander’s A History of Old English Literature is an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. It provides a simple historical and cultural context for the study of the Anglo-Saxons, and offers a history, illustrated by many passages in translation, of the whole of the literature that survives. While it contains solid, insightful and sensible criticism of individual literary works, its overall historical organization suggests that Old English literature was created in a cultural context that changed from one century to another. Although its intentions are scholarly, this history of Old English literature is also an introduction, assuming little knowledge of this period or its surviving products, and none of its language. This edition has been revised and rewritten throughout, and offers a new preface as well as an updated bibliography.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St. Andrews; his many works include The Earliest English Poems and Beowulf: A Verse Translation.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1551113228
• ISBN 13: 9781551113227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 299
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile