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Author | : Clare A. Lees |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 910 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131617509X |
Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.
Author | : Siegfried Wenzel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1400854148 |
The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in detail. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Henry Spackman Pancoast |
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Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Thomas Gibson Duncan |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781843843412 |
A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary.
Author | : David C. Fowler |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780295801315 |
In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular "secular' and "religious" elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. "The Parliament of Fowls" is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem's structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the "Pearl" poet--"Cleanness," "Patience," "Saint Erkenwald," and the "Pearl"--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, "Piers the Plowman," the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). "It is my hope," the author states, "that future studies of 'Piers' will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man." This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.
Author | : Eric Weiskott |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580443605 |
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.
Author | : Julia Boffey |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843844976 |
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.
Author | : Michael Alexander |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780520015043 |
Author | : Jennifer A. Lorden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009390287 |
Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.