Readings in Medieval Texts
Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 March 2005
- ISBN 9780199261635
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 216x138x23 mm
- Weight 528 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp halftone plates 0
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Short description:
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. It outlines current debates and theories and also explores the major themes and literary issues of texts such as Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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.
Long description:
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.
Essays are intended for students undertaking beginning coursework in medieval literature and thus tend to offer general overviews of the topic at hand as well as models of close reading and textual analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The context of medieval literature
Old English religious poetry
The Old English elegy: an historicization
'Tell me what I am': the Old English riddles
Warring with words: Cynewulf's Juliana
Old English heroic literature
Beowulf: monuments, moments, history
History and memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The persuasive power of Alfredian prose
Old English religious prose: rhetorics of salvation and damnation
Centralizing feminism in Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies: Elene, motherhood, and history
Wise words: Old English sapiental poetry
Middle English didactic literature
Middle English writings for women: Ancrene Wisse
The Middle English Brut chronicles
Earlier verse romance
Middle English debate literature
Religious writing by Women
The Gawain-poet
Middle English prologues
The Middle English lyrics
Medieval dream visions: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
Late romance: Malory and the Tale of Balin
Scottish literature
Medieval drama: the Corpus Christi in York and Croxton
