John D. Niles 
God’s Exiles and English Verse [EPUB ebook] 
On The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry

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This monograph is a critical study of the medieval manuscript held in Exeter Cathedral Library, popularly known as ‘The Exeter Book’.  Recent scholarship, including the standard edition of the text, published by UEP in 2000 (2 ed’n 2006), has re-named the manuscript ‘The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry’.  The book gives us intelligent, sensitive literary criticism, profound readings of all of the poems of the Anthology.
God’s Exiles and English Verse is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressions of late Anglo-Saxon literary culture.
The poems of the Exeter Book have not before been approached primarily from a codicological perspective. They have not before been read as an integrated expression of a monastic poetic: that is to say, as a refashioning of the medium of Old English verse so as to serve as an emotionally powerful, intellectually challenging vehicle for Christian doctrine and moral instruction.
Part One, consisting of three chapters, introduces certain of the book’s main themes, addresses matters of date, authorship, audience, and the like, and evaluates hypotheses that have been put forth concerning the origins of the Exeter Anthology in the south of England during the period of the Benedictine Reform.
Part Two, the main body of the book, begins with a long chapter, divided into seven sections, that introduces the contents of the Exeter Anthology poem by poem in a more systematic fashion than before, with attention to the overall organization of the Anthology and certain factors in it that have a unifying function. The five shorter chapters that follow are devoted to topics of special interest, including the volume’s possible use as a guide to vernacular poetic techniques, its underlying worldview, its reliance on certain thematically significant keywords, and its intertextual versus intratextual relations. The riddles, especially those of a sexual content, receive attention in a chapter of their own.
In addition, there is a translation of the popular poem The Wanderer into modern English prose, a folio-by-folio listing of the contents of the Exeter Anthology, and a listing of a number of the poems of the Anthology with notes on their genre, according to Latin generic terms familiar to educated Anglo-Saxons.
This book is the first of its kind – an integrative, book-length critical study of the Exeter Anthology.

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Part One: Reading the Anthology in its Historical Context                                                        
Monastic Poetics                                                                                                                  Scribes, Authors, Compilers, and Readers                                                                        
Exeter, Glastonbury, and the Benedictine Reform                                                         
Part Two: Reading the Anthology as a Codicological Whole
An Overview of the Book’s Contents
Principles of order                                               
The book’s opening parts, Advent Lyrics to Juliana
Voices of wisdom: The Wanderer and related poems                     
The voice of the sage: A Father’s Precepts and related poems     
Voices from the Germanic past: Widsith and related poems        
Diversity within unity: the role of simulated speech                       
The book’s closing parts, The Panther to the end                             
Teaching the Tools of the Poet’s Trade
The Enigmas — a Special Problem?                                                                Poetry and Worldview                                                                             Keywords
Intratextual Hermeneutics
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix 1: A translation of The Wanderer                                      
Appendix 2: Folio-by-folio contents of the Exeter Anthology                            
Appendix 3: Latin genre terms and the poems of the Exeter Anthology   

Circa l’autore

John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin – Madison AND Professor of English (Emeritus), University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and the American Folklore Society.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 304 ● ISBN 9781905816156 ● Dimensione 3.7 MB ● Casa editrice University of Exeter Press ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2019 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7776873 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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