A history of Old English literature

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    • Alexander, Michael

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A history of Old English literature

Michael Alexander

Broadview Press, c2002

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Bibliography: p. 293-299

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内容説明

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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Acknowledgements Preface Chronological Table 1. PERSPECTIVES What has Survived Songs and Scribes The End of Heathenism The Languages of Britain Contexts 2. ENGLAND 449-1066: A SKETCH Old English Conquest Conversion Sutton Hoo and warrior society Conversion and accommodation Bede's Northumbria Theodore and a learned Church Wessex The Benedictine Revival 3. HEROIC POETRY INCLUDING BEOWULF The heroic ethos Germanic heroic poetry Versification Poetic diction Formulaic composition The uses of poetry Beowulf 4. THE WORLD'S WONDER: RIDDLES Riddles Verse Wisdom 5. BEDE AND CAEDMON The Ecclesiastical History Caedmon 6. THE POETIC ELEGIES Wanderer and Seafarer Other Elegies 7. ALFRED AND OLD ENGLISH PROSE The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Books most needful 8. VERSE OF THE CHRISTIAN ESTABLISHMENT Saints' lives: Andreas Elene Christ The Dream of the Rood 9. THE BENEDICTINE REVIVAL Aelfric's Colloquy Aelfric's Homilies Wulfstan Verse of the tenth century The Battle of Maldon 10. AFTERWARDS Old and Middle Late Prose Appendix: A Note on Deor Notes on the Plates Bibliography and Further Reading

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