English Literature Through the Ages
Author | : Amy Cruse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amy Cruse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Cruse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Coote |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This new guide covers seven hundred years of English literature. Stephen Coote describes the major figures and works of the period - Beowulf, King Alfred, Chaucer, Langland, Henryson, the Gawain-poet and Malory as well as lesser-known poets. Considerable attention is given to Chaucer and the extensive treatment of 'Troilus and Criseyde' demonstrates the range of concerns that can be brought to a medieval text. Chapters are devoted to alliterative poetry, popular romance, ballad and lyric, medieval drama and Middle English prose, set against a background of the European literary tradition and of medieval circumstances and ways of thought. The discussion of the development of the language from Old English to Middle English show how, through the genius of Chaucer, it took 'its plae beside the great literary vernaculars of Europe'. -- Book cover.
Author | : Robert D. Fulk |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2013-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118441125 |
A HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE A History of Old English Literature has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.
Author | : Richard Firth Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Cruse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 1928* |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2023-11-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The book 'History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne' is written by Andrew Lang. Lang was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. His academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew's lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Excerpt: "The literature of every modern country is made up of many elements, contributed by various races; and has been modified at different times by foreign influences. Thus, among the ancient Celtic inhabitants of our islands, the peoples whom the Romans found here, the Welsh have given us the materials of the famous romances of King Arthur, and from the Gaelic tribes of Ireland and Scotland come the romances of heroes less universally known, Finn, Diarmaid, Cuchulain, and the rest. But the main stock of our earliest poetry and prose, like the main stock of our language, is Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon tribes who invaded Britain, and after the departure of the Romans (411) conquered the greater part of the island, must have had a literature of their own, and must have brought it with them over sea."
Author | : Ronald Carter |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780415243179 |
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
Author | : Edward Albert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Poplawski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107141672 |
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.