[PDF] Old English Prose eBook

Author : Eleni Ponirakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1501514415

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Cognitive approaches to early medieval texts have tended to focus on the mind in isolation. By examining the interplay between mental and physical acts deployed in Old English poetry and prose, this study identifies new patterns and offers new perspectives. In these texts, the performance of right or wrong action is not linked to natural inclination dictated by birth; it is the fruit of right or wrong thinking. The mind consciously directed and controlled is open to external influences, both human and diabolical. This struggle to produce right thought and action reflects an emerging democratization of heroism that crosses societal and gender boundaries, becoming intertwined with socio-political, soteriological, and cultural meaning. In a study of influential prose texts, including the Alfredian translations and the sermons of Ælfric, alongside close readings of three poems from different genres – The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and Juliana –, Ponirakis demonstrates how early medieval authors create patterns of interaction between the mental and the physical. These provide hidden keys to meaning which, once found, unlock new readings of much studied texts. In addition, these patterns of balance, distribution, and opposition, reveal a startling similarity of approach across genre and form, taking the discussion of the early medieval conception of the mind, soul, and emotion, not to mention conventional generic divisions, onto new ground.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300069944

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In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel's out-of-print classic, Poems from the Old English, Raffel and co-editor Alexandra H. Olsen place the oldest English writings in a different perspective. Keeping the classroom teacher's needs foremost in mind, Raffel and Olsen organize the major old English poems (except Beowulf) and new prose selections so as to facilitate both reading and studying. A general introduction provides an up-to-date and detailed historical account of the Anglo-Saxon period, and concise introductions open the literature sections of the book and many of the translations.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780873959483

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Old English prose before the late tenth century is examined in this collection of hitherto unpublished essays. Using a variety of techniques, the authors explore well-known and lesser-known texts in search of a better understanding of why, how, and by whom the manuscripts were produced. Part I of the collection contains six studies of Alfredian prose—the Soliloquies, the Pastoral Care, and Consolation of Philosophy—all of which are translations traditionally associated with King Alfred.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317947606

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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.

Author : Boethius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674055586

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King Alfred's circle of scholars boldly refashioned Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into Old English, bringing it to a vernacular audience for the first time. Verse prologues and epilogues associated with the court of Alfred fill out this new edition, translated from Old English by Susan Irvine and Malcolm R. Godden.

Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 047065984X

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Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000573990

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Originally published in 1966, this book provides students of the earliest stage of our literature with a selection of texts for a complete introductory course. All the principal poems and prose works in this literature are represented, including more generous extracts from Beowulf than are common in anthologies of this type. By omitting texts of primarily philological and historical interest it has been possible to include enough literary texts to satisfy all but the advanced student, who will follow this volume with the specialised editions available. A departure from the traditional design of Old English anthologies is the provision of full critical and annotative apparatus. In the past it has been necessary for students to go beyond their Readers, to specialised editions or to learned articles, in order to discover even the most basic information about the extracts or their content. Here each text is accompanied by an introduction which gives brief details of (where known) date, authorship, manuscript situation, character and critical interest. Line-by-line explanatory notes are also provided, and a bibliography of books and articles for further study. The glossary aims to be more explicit about form and meaning, and easier to use than those of earlier selections.

Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 052119332X

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This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Author : Patrick P. O’Neill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674504755

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The Latin psalms—translated into Old English—figured prominently in the lives of Anglo-Saxons, whether sung by clerics, studied as a textbook for language learning, or recited in private devotion by lay people. The complete text of all 150 prose and verse psalms is available here in contemporary English for the first time.

Author : Murray McGillivray
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1460401514

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The texts in this reader include prose, metrical prose, and poetry, and represent a variety of genres (saints’ lives and metrical charms as well as heroic verse). Frequently taught canonical texts are balanced with interesting, lesser-known works. The glossary is at the back of the book, and the companion website includes texts with clickable glossing, as well as additional texts for study.