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This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

  • An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.
  • Structured around ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
  • Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.
  • Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors.
  • Combines close textual analysis with historical context.
  • Based on the author’s many years experience of teaching Old English literature.
  • The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).

Old English Literature: A Short Introduction

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 25/03/2004
    ISBN13: 9780631234852, 978-0631234852
    ISBN10: 0631234853

    Number of Pages: 164

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    This innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.

    • An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.
    • Structured around ‘figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
    • Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.
    • Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors.
    • Combines close textual analysis with historical context.
    • Based on the author’s many years experience of teaching Old English literature.
    • The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).

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