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David Johnson and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature.
Oxford U.P., 2005.
ISBN 0199261636;
ISBN-13: 9780199261635.
Paperback, perfect bound.
137x215x22mm.
xi,400pp plus 8 pages of monochrome plates.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £13.00
[Publisher's price £23.00]
536g.
Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars.
An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes.
This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.
Contents:
Treharne, Context of medieval literature;
Keefer, OE religious poetry;
Conner, The OE elegy - a historicization;
Wilcox, The OE riddles;
Frederick, Cynewulf's Juliana;
Bremmer, OE heroic literature;
Liuzza, Beowulf - monuments, memory, history;
Bredehoft, History & memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle;
Discenza, The persuasive power of Alfredian prose;
Hall, OE religious prose - rhetorics of salvation & damnation;
Klein, Centralizing feminism in A-S literary studies - Elene, motherhood, & history;
Hill, OE sapiential poetry;
Morey, ME didactic literature;
Renevey, Ancrene Wisse;
Johnson, The ME Brut chronicles;
Lucas, Earlier verse romances;
Fletcher, ME debate literature;
Swan, Religious writing by women;
Twomey, The Gawain-Poet;
Galloway, ME prologues;
D'Arcy, The ME lyrics;
Quinn, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess;
Putter, Malory & the Tale of Balin;
Royan, Scottish literature;
Walker, Medieval drama - the Corpus Christi in York & Croxton.
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