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| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Beowulf , 2012-03-01 Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Elene of Cynewulf Cynewulf, 1904 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Battle of Maldon D. G. Scragg, 1981 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Seafarer Ida L. Gordon, 1979 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne Andrew Lang, 2003-01-01 Andrew Lang's survey of English literature is a remarkably thorough look at the history of English writing, covering authors from Abbot Adamnan to Edward Young, and everyone of note in between. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook Mark C. Amodio, 2013-06-04 The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Makes Anglo-Saxon literature accessible to modern readers Helps readers to overcome the linguistic, aesthetic and cultural barriers to understanding and appreciating Anglo-Saxon verse and prose Introduces readers to the language, politics, and religion of the Anglo-Saxon literary world Presents original readings of such works as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Wound Dresser Walt Whitman, 2018-04-05 Reproduction of the original: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature Jonathan Wilcox, 2000 Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ different approaches to explore humor in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter Book, and Old English saints' lives. An introductory essay provides a survey of the field, while individual essays push towards a distinctive theory of Anglo-Saxon humour. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. Contributors: JOHN D. NILES, T.A. SHIPPEY, RAYMOND P. TRIPP JR, E.L. RISDEN, D.K. SMITH, NINA RULON-MILLER, SHARI HORNER, HUGH MAGENNIS. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter. Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives. The articles are prefaced with an introduction surveying the field. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Anglo-Saxon Art Leslie Webster, 2012 The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 400-1100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every aspect of its culture, culminating in a dramatic shift from a barbarian society to a recognizably medieval civilization. This book traces the changing nature of that art, the different roles it played in Anglo-Saxon culture, and the various ways it both reflected and influenced the changing context in which it was created. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England Emily V. Thornbury, 2014-01-30 A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Anglo-Saxon Poetry , 1976 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature Malcolm Godden, Michael Lapidge, 2013-05-02 This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Politics and the English Language George Orwell, 2021-01-01 George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Routledge History of Literature in English Ronald Carter, John McRae, 2001 This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: English Literature: A Very Short Introduction Jonathan Bate, 2010-10-07 Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with close readings from an extraordinary scene in King Lear to a war poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and a series of striking examples of how literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader. The narrative embraces not only the major literary movements such as Romanticism and Modernism, together with the most influential authors including Chaucer, Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens and Woolf, but also little-known stories such as the identity of the first English woman poet to be honoured with a collected edition of her works. Written with the flair and passion for which Jonathan Bate has become renowned, this book is the perfect Very Short Introduction for all readers and students of the incomparable literary heritage of these islands. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literature M. Drout, 2013-07-17 This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature. Connecting the theory of tradition with the phenomenon of influence, Drout moves beyond current theories. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Deor Kemp Malone, 1949 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Juliana Saint Juliana (of Nicomedia), Cynewulf, 1904 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , 1912 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Wilding L. A. Smith, 2019-05-28 An exciting historical fantasy featuring a young man whose shadowed destiny leads him to the past...where he could change our world forever. On Halloween eve, a frightening encounter with mysterious creatures transports twenty-year old Thomas McCadden to an unknown and ancient world—7thcentury Britain. How did he get there? What does he do now? The answers to these questions change his life forever, revealing secrets that have long been hidden, and a truth that he would rather not know. As he tries to survive this long-ago time, Thomas encounters the unknown and the otherworldly; an exiled warrior, holy men, tribal kings, and something far more sinister shadowing them all. Is he a tool for the dark forces of this land? Or the liberator sent to save them all? His strange journey forces these and even more important questions: Can he make it back home? Does he even want to return? Wildingis the first book of The Traveller’s Path, a meticulously researched historical fantasy series set in Northumbria, AD 642. It introduces a long-ago world, and a young man whose choices could have disastrous ramifications for it—and ours. “L.A. Smith cleverly weaves history and fantasy together into an intriguing tale of Dark Ages religion and magic.”- Matthew Harffy, author of A Time for Swords. “Wildingis, for the reader, as immersive and intriguing a journey into 7th-century Britain as it is for the time-travelling hero of the story.” – Edoardo Albert, author of Warrior: A Life of War in Anglo-Saxon Britain. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Exeter Book Israel Gollancz, 2018-10-09 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Anglo-Saxon Literature John Earle, 2019-09-25 Reproduction of the original: Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Heathen Gods in Old English Literature Richard North, 1997-12-11 Heathen gods are hard to find in Old English literature. Most Anglo-Saxon writers had no interest in them, and scholars today prefer to concentrate on the Christian civilization for which the Anglo-Saxons were so famous. Richard North offers an interesting view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discusses the pre-Christian gods of Bede's history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion with reference to an orgiastic figure known as Ingui, whom Bede called 'god of this age'. Using expert knowledge of comparative literary material from Old Norse-Icelandic and other Old Germanic languages, North reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in a highly imaginative treatment of poems such as Deor and The Dream of the Rood. Other gods such as Woden are considered with reference to Odin and his family in Old Norse-Icelandic mythology. In conclusion, it is argued that the cult of Ingui was defeated only when the ideology of the god Woden was sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon church. The book will interest students interested in Old English, Old Norse-Icelandic and Germanic literatures, Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: A Brief History of English Literature John Peck, Martin Coyle, 2017-07-06 This new edition of an established text provides a succinct and up-to-date historical overview of the story of English literature. Focusing on how writing both reflects and challenges the periods in which it is produced, John Peck and Martin Coyle combine close readings of key texts with recent critical thinking on the interaction of literary works and culture. Providing a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day, the authors write in their characteristically lucid and accessible style. A true masterpiece of clarity and compression, this is essential reading for undergraduate students coming across the vast areas of English literature for the first time and looking for a way of making critical sense of the texts being studied. In addition, the concise nature and narrative structure of this book makes it excellent reading for general readers. New to this Edition: - Revised chapter on twentieth century literature - Complete new chapter on twenty-first century literature - Updated Chronology and Further Reading section |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature Stephen Harris, 2004-06-01 What makes English literature English ? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race from Old English to its nineteenth-century critical reception. Literary voices in the England of Bede understood the limits of community primarily as racial or tribal, in keeping with the perceived divine division of peoples after their languages, and the extension of Christianity to Bede's Germanic neighbours was effected in part through metaphors of family and race. Harris demonstrates how King Alfred adapted Bede in the ninth century; how both exerted an effect on Archbishop Wulfstan in the eleventh; and how Old English poetry speaks to images of race. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Outlines of English and American Literature William Joseph Long, 1917 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature Hugh Magennis, 2011-06-16 Introducing Anglo-Saxon literature in an approachable way, this is an indispensable guide for students to a key literary topic. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript Kevin S. Kiernan, 1996 Takes the crowning work of medieval Britain into the twenty-first century |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation. A new translation by ... L. Gidley Saint Bede (the Venerable), 1870 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: On Feeble Love and Bitter Love Tristan Tzara, 2017-01-15 Translation/ annihillation of Tristan Tzara's dada manifesto on occasion of Dada World Fair held by City Lights Books in San Francisco during the first 13 days of November, 2016. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Anglo-Saxon World Nicholas J. Higham, M. J. Ryan, 2013-06-25 Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Anglo-Saxons Marc Morris, 2021-05-25 A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Moore Bede Saint Bede (the Venerable), 1959 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry Anonymous, |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The Junius Manuscript Caedmon, 1941-01-22 The Junius Manuscript |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture James Paz, 2017 This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Early Britain Grant Allen, 1881 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: The History of the English Church and People Saint Bede (the Venerable), 2005 |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Anglo-Saxon Poetry S. A. J. Bradley, 1995-02-15 Anglo–Saxon poetry is esteemed for its subtle artistry and for its wealth of insights into the artistic, social and spiritual preoccupations of the formative first centuries of English literature. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and in various other manuscripts. A well–received feature is the grouping by codex to emphasize the great importance of manuscript context in interpreting the poems. The full contents of the Exeter Book are represented, summarized where not translated, to facilitate appreciation of a complete Anglo-Saxon book. The introduction discusses the nature of the legacy, the poet's role, chronology, and especially of translations attempt a style acceptable to the modern ear yet close enough to aid parallel study of the old English text. A check–list of extant Anglo-Saxon poetry enhances the practical usefulness of the volume. The whole thus adds up to a substantial and now widely–cited survey of the Anglo–Saxon poetic achievement. |
| anglo saxon literature characteristics: Myperspectives English Language Arts 2017 Student Edition Volumes 1 & 2 Grade 09 , 2015-12-01 |
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