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).
สารบัญ
List of Illustrations.
Introduction.
.
List of Abbreviations.
1. The Vow.
2. The Hall.
3. The Miracle.
4. The Pulpit.
5. The Scholar.
Notes.
Furthur Reading.
Index.
เกี่ยวกับผู้แต่ง
Daniel Donoghue is the John P. Marquand Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003), Style in Old English Poetry (1987) and is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001).
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