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Arc Humanities Press John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text,
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Arc Humanities Press John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text,
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University of Notre Dame Press Writing the Oral Tradition
Book SynopsisMark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts because, throughout the Middle Ages, literacy and orality were interdependent, not competing, cultural forces.After delving into the background of the medieval oral-literate matrix, Writing the Oral Tradition develops a model of non-performative oral poetics that is a central, perhaps defining, component of Old English vernacular verse. Following the Norman Conquest, oral poetics lost its central position and became one of many ways to articulate poetry. Contrary to many scholars, Amodio argues that oral poetics did not disappear but Trade Review"In this exceptionally fine book, Amodio examines the process by which oral poetic performance interacted with written vernacular poetry in the English medieval tradition. . . . This closely argued and very detailed book examines a wide variety of texts—some well known to students of medieval literature, others less familiar—and considers technical issues of metrics and lexemes and broader issues of theme and imagery. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of the relationship between oral and written poetry in the medieval period. Essential." —Choice"Mark Amodio's book stands as an important addition to the growing body of work that insists upon at least some important continuities between Old and Middle English poetry, despite the obvious disjunctions. Amodio's method is to read Old and Middle English literature through the lens of 'oral poetics,' leading him to discern a tradition of such poetics extending from the beginnings of Old English verse through the Middle English period, although with generally diminishing affective force as the effects of literacy became more dominant." —Speculum"Amodio has made an important contribution to oral theory, to research methodology in this difficult area, and to our understanding of the actual workings of oral poetics-not only in the earliest period of English literature, but even more significantly in the progress of oral poetics through the later Middle Ages." —The Journal of Folklore Research "Mark C. Amodio's study of the early English vernacular poetic tradition is detailed and wide ranging. Proceeding chronologically, he discusses what he calls the 'oral poetics' of Anglo-Saxon England, before moving on to an exploration of what happened to this tradition after the Norman Conquest. His discussion of the transformation of form, lexis, and theme of the inherited 'oral poetics' by post-Conquest poets sheds fascinating new light on a little studied period of English poetry." —Medium Ævum“Mark Amodio uses the framework of the study of oral-traditional poetics to examine the continuities between Old and Middle English poetry; his particular focus lies with the complex shift from oral to written composition . . . Historians of early medieval orality and literacy will find in this book a useful access point into the oral-traditional study of poetics.” —Early Medieval Europe“ … an innovative, convincing, and thoroughly engaging 'study of the oral tradition's influence on the vernacular verse produced in England from the beginnings of the Anglo-Saxon period in the fifth century C.E. through the close of the Middle Ages in the early fifteenth.” —Journal of English and Germanic Philology“This valuable contribution addresses an item currently on the agenda of oral-formulaic theory—namely, coming to terms with written texts. Taken together, the different parts of Amodio's argument show that the freighted vocabulary, thematics, and story patterns of an oral poetics remain or can remain accessible to poets who compose in writing and create texts rather than performances. This is indeed a major revision of oral theory, and it is cogently set out.” —Journal of American Folklore“This is a well-conceived, well-structured, and well-written book that fills a significant gap in current scholarly discourse. Amodio is extremely well-informed about current oral theory, and presents a beautifully integrated thesis. This clear-sighted and provocative book both promises and delivers much.” —Andy Orchard, University of Toronto“This is a splendid, rewarding book destined to reshape critical thinking about medieval poetry in English. Amodio combines groundbreaking theory with a deep, wide-ranging command of relevant scholarship to offer a uniquely inclusive perspective on an enormous and disparate collection of Old and Middle English poetry.” —John Miles Foley, University of Missouri, Columbia“Mark Amodio charts fascinating continuities and fragmentations between Anglo-Saxon oral poetics and those of the 12th and 13th centuries. Beginning with an overview of the expressive economy central to Anglo-Saxon oral poetics—for example, how a simplex such as belgan + mod functions in terms of conventional expectations and within an affective dynamics that can override some conventional details—Amodio shows in small ways and in large how an oral poetics influences the stylistic character of Old English verse no matter what the source texts might be. However, that only generates the beginning of this remarkable foray into continuities between Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest poetics. The study's heart is its exploration of manuscript appearance (as with pointing) and poetical texts exhibiting Anglo-Saxon kinds of practices, thematics, metrical arrangements and lexical collocations. One of the key texts here is Layamon's Brut and some of the thematics and collocations involve words for rage, boasting, ritual behavior in the hall, leadership and anger. The continuities Amodio explicates are compelling, as are the eventual departures he documents. More than a major contribution, Writing the Oral Tradition is an exciting renovation within the burgeoning field of English 12th and 13th-century studies.” —John M. Hill, U.S. Naval Academy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Trade Review"(An) accessible, invaluable book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates." (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on the Text xvii List of Abbreviations xix Part 1 Anglo-Saxon England: Backgrounds and Beginnings 1 Political History 3 Ecclesiastical History 11 Intellectual History 15 Linguistic History 20 Literary History 24 Traditions: Oral and Literate 27 A Note on Dating Anglo-Saxon Texts 30 Part 2 Anglo-Saxon Prose 33 The Writings of King Alfred the Great 35 Alfred’s Translation of Pope Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care 36 Alfred’s Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy 42 Alfred’s Translation of St Augustine’s Soliloquies 47 Alfred’s Translations of the Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter 51 Alfred’s Preface to Wærferth’s Translation of Pope Gregory’s Dialogues 54 The Vercelli Homilies 56 The Blickling Homilies 62 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 67 The Old English Orosius 72 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People 78 Apollonius of Tyre 87 The Old English Martyrology 92 The Life of St Guthlac 96 The Wonders of the East, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Life of St Christopher 99 Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III 105 The Writings of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 109 The Writings of Ælfric of Eynsham 116 Catholic Homilies 122 Lives of Saints 126 Colloquy on the Occupations 127 Ælfric as Author 130 Part 3 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 135 The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Tradition 137 Cædmon’s Hymn 147 Bede’s Death Song 152 The Junius Manuscript 154 Genesis 155 Genesis A 156 Genesis B 157 Exodus 162 Daniel 167 Christ and Satan 170 The Poems of the Vercelli Book 176 Andreas 177 Fates of the Apostles 185 Soul and Body I (and II) 188 Homiletic Fragment I 192 The Dream of the Rood 192 Elene 197 The Exeter Book 202 The Advent Lyrics (Christ I) 203 The Ascension (Christ II) 206 Christ in Judgement (Christ III) 209 Life of St Guthlac 212 Guthlac A 213 Guthlac B 215 Azarias 219 The Phoenix 221 Juliana 225 The Wanderer 229 The Gifts of Men 233 Precepts 234 The Seafarer 235 Vainglory 237 Widsið 240 The Fortunes of Men 242 Maxims (I) 244 The Order of the World 246 The Rhyming Poem 247 The Panther, The Whale, The Partridge (The Old English Physiologus) 249 Soul and Body II (and I) 252 Deor 253 Wulf and Eadwacer 255 The Exeter Book Riddles 257 The Wife’s Lament 260 Judgement Day I 262 Resignation (A and B) 265 The Descent into Hell 267 Almsgiving 268 Pharaoh 269 The Lord’s Prayer I 270 Homiletic Fragment II 270 The Husband’s Message 271 The Ruin 273 The Poems of Cotton Vitellius A.xv 276 Beowulf 277 Judith 294 Poems from Various Manuscripts 300 The Metres of Boethius 300 The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter 305 Solomon and Saturn I and II 307 The Menologium 311 The Rune Poem 313 The Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 315 The Battle of Brunanburh 317 The Battle of Maldon 319 The Fight at Finnsburh 323 Waldere 326 Durham 329 Part 4 Critical Approaches 333 The Alterity of Anglo-Saxon Literature 335 Source Studies 339 Manuscript Studies 342 Grammatical and Syntactic Studies 343 Theoretical Perspectives 345 Part 5 Themes 361 Anglo-Saxon Thematics 363 Heroism 365 The End of the World 368 The Transitory Nature of Life 370 Fate 372 Wisdom 374 Otherness 376 Oral-Traditional Themes 378 Bibliography 381 Index 401 Index of Manuscripts 411
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