Old English Prose: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England)

ISBN 10: 081530305X / ISBN 13: 9780815303053

Published by Routledge, 2000

About this Item

Seller Inventory # I-9780815303053

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old English Prose: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081530305X
• ISBN 13: 9780815303053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a first book for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.

About the Author

Paul E. SZARMARCH