Old English Literature: A Short Introduction - Softcover

Donoghue, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631234861 ISBN 13: 9780631234869

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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• 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).

About this title

Book 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. These unconventional categories not only situate Old English texts within a cultural framework but also create new connections between different genres, periods and authors: for example, between prose and poetry, the vernacular and Latin, and the obscure and the well known. The book is based on the author's many years' experience of teaching Old English literature and combines close textual analysis with historical context, making it suitable for both new students and general readers.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631234861
• ISBN 13: 9780631234869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160