Old English literature : a guide to criticism, with selected readings / John D. Niles.
2016
PR173 .N65 2016
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Title
Old English literature : a guide to criticism, with selected readings / John D. Niles.
Author
Niles, John D., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781118598832
9780631220565 (hardback)
9780631220572 (paper)
9780631220565 (hardback)
9780631220572 (paper)
Published
West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (355 pages).
Call Number
PR173 .N65 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
829/.09
Summary
"Old English Literature is the first book to review the critical reception of the field from 1900 to the present. Moving beyond a focus on individual literary texts, the book presents ample coverage of the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have affected the discipline over the years. It examines notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. It also uses excerpts from ten critical studies to reinforce key perspectives and methods introduced within the text. The book addresses the complex questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as issues of style, gender, genre, and theme. It embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with references to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and much more. Drawing on over a century's worth of scholarly work, this is an essential guide to the factors that have shaped the modern critical reception of the earliest English literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Blackwell guides to criticism.
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