
Reading Old English Texts
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. August 1997
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-0-521-46575-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-46575-5 (9780521465755)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe; 1. The comparative approach Michael Lapidge; 2. Source study D. G. Scragg; 3. Language matters Daniel Donoghue; 4. Historicist approaches Nicholas Howe; 5. Oral tradition Andy Orchard; 6. The recovery of texts Paul E. Szarmach; 7. At a crossroads: Old English and feminist criticism Clare A. Lees; 8. Post-structuralist theories: the subject and the text Carol Braun Pasternack; 9. Old English and computing: a guided tour Peter S. Baker; Suggestions for further reading; Index.