The Power of Words: Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on His Seventieth Birthday - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1933202157 ISBN 13: 9781933202150

Casa editrice: West Virginia Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

The essays in this collection examine some favorite and well-known Old English poems, such as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, as well as advancing the understanding of many lesser-known works that shed light on the world of Anglo-Saxon England, especially the sermons, saints’ lives, and prayers of the period. Individual studies illuminate the style of the leading prose writer of the day, the monk and abbot Ælfric, uncover the rationale underlying a particularly rich manuscript collection, explore the visual power of a particular prayerbook, and provide new readings of a number of homilies and saints’ lives. Other essays explore the style of Old English poetry, and the stylistic and political implications of particular spelling choices. Careful attention to Old English manuscripts is evident throughout the collection, which includes one essay explicitly critiquing contemporary scholarly editing practices. The afterlife of Old English texts is another preoccupation picked up in many essays, including one that explains how the freemasons look back to a mythic Anglo-Saxon past. While all leading scholars in their own right, the writers in this volume are also all past students or friends of Professor Scragg. The volume includes a wonderful biographical essay that pays tribute to this significant scholar of Anglo-Saxon England. Eighth in West Virginia University Press’s Medieval European Studies series, The Power of Words illustrates the exciting scholarship currently being produced on Anglo-Saxon culture while also serving as a tribute to a retiring giant of the field.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jonathan Wilcox is Professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at the University of Iowa’s Department of English.

Hugh Magennis is Professor of Old English literature at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

The Power of Words: Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on his Seventieth Birthday edited by Jonathan Wilcox and Hugh Magennis will find its place on the same shelf with these and other such valuable tomes in the discipline. This is a complex and carefully edited book, that showcases the work of some of Professor Scragg’s best students and most admiring professional friends. The contents range from several studies in homiletic literature, one of Professor Scragg’s own passions, to other of his pursuits, including editing theory and orthography. These are not, however, derivative essays that recommend a single adjustment in a reading or to a source study; instead, they are studies that do what Professor Scragg himself did: they observe clues to larger realities, and they point the way to a broader comprehension of our discipline and its several methodologies.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: West Virginia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933202157
• ISBN 13: 9781933202150
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 441
• Redattore: Magennis Hugh, Wilcox Jonathan