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Author | : Robert DiNapoli |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1527565319 |
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This book translates and comments on a selection of Old English poems that modern scholars identify as “wisdom” texts. These comprise collections of maxims, philosophical and cosmological speculation, and historical meditation. Composed by monastic authors from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, they mingle orthodox Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities embedded in the linguistic texture of Anglo-Saxon verse itself. Their preoccupation with how the human psyche responds to the challenges of incarnate life in space and time lends them a wide-ranging interest for students of medieval religion, social history, and psychology. Many are superb poems in their own right, whose quality the translations here serve to communicate to modern readers. The book’s commentaries engage sympathetically with patterns of thought and imagination both remote from us in time and yet strangely familiar.
Author | : Janet Schrunk Ericksen |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487507461 |
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Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.
Author | : T. A. Shippey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Russell Gilbert Poole |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859915304 |
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Bibliography and guide to scholarly literature on the genre of Old English wisdom poetry. Wisdom literature played a crucial role in the evolution of traditional societies, contributing to the structure of society and to the acceptance of new ideas within a culture, a function that has become increasingly understood. Old English wisdom literature is the focus of this volume, which offers an bibliography of the scholarly criticism between 1800 and 1990 of a group of largely secular poems comprising the metrical Charms, The Fortunes of Men, The Gifts of Men, Homiletic Fragments I and II, Maxims I and II, The Order of the World, Precepts, the metrical Proverbs, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Rune Poem, Solomon and Saturn, and Vainglory. A General Introduction investigates debates between scholars and establishes overall trends; it is followed by the bibliography proper, divided into chapters, each with its own introduction, focusing on a major text or collection of texts, with entries arranged chronologically. Dr RUSSELL POOLEteaches in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.
Author | : Francis Adelbert Blackburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Exeter book |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elaine Tuttle Hansen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas D. Hill |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802093671 |
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As one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field, Thomas D. Hill has made an indelible mark on the study of Old English literature. In celebration of his distinguished career, the editors of Source of Wisdom have assembled a wide-ranging collection of nineteen original essays on Old English poetry and prose as well as early medieval Latin, touching upon many of Hill's specific research interests. Among the topics examined in this volume are the Christian-Latin sources of Old English texts, including religious and 'sapiential' poetry, and prose translations of Latin writings. Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Wife's Lament are treated, throughout, to thematic, textual, stylistic, lexical, and source analysis. Prose writers of the period such as King Alfred and Wærferth, as well as medieval Latin writers such as Bede and Pseudo-Methodius are also discussed. As an added feature, the volume includes a bibliography of publications by Thomas D. Hill. Source of Wisdom is, ultimately, a contribution to the understanding of medieval English literature and the textual traditions that contributed to its development.
Author | : Murray McGillivray |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1460401514 |
Download Old English Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The texts in this reader include prose, metrical prose, and poetry, and represent a variety of genres (saints’ lives and metrical charms as well as heroic verse). Frequently taught canonical texts are balanced with interesting, lesser-known works. The glossary is at the back of the book, and the companion website includes texts with clickable glossing, as well as additional texts for study.
Author | : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521469708 |
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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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Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2011-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0393340538 |
Download The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a modern translation of the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, providing an annotation and commentary for each verse.