Desire for Origins: New Language, Old English, and Teaching the Tradition - Softcover

Frantzen, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813515912 ISBN 13: 9780813515915

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1990

Synopsis

To many folks, the study of Old English language and literature may seem dull, moribund, rarefied, and largely irrelevant-- a subject only of concern to concern only to musty old academics in the ivory tower. Frantzen doesn't (directly) try to argue against this perception-- instead, he tries to investigate *why* this perception exists. His answer is an insightful and eye-opening investigation into the relationship among scholarship, ideology, and cultural relevance.

About this title

About the Author:

Allen J. Frantzen is Professor of English at Loyola University of Chicago. His book The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England (Rutgers University Press, 1983) shared the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0813515912
• ISBN 13: 9780813515915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280