Note (General)Summary: "Old English Literature is the first book to review the critical reception of the field from 1900 to the present. Moving beyond a focus on individual literary texts, the book presents ample coverage of the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have affected the discipline over the years. It examines notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. It also uses excerpts from ten critical studies to reinforce key perspectives and methods introduced within the text. The book addresses the complex questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as issues of style, gender, genre, and theme. It embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with references to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and much more. Drawing on over a century's worth of scholarly work, this is an essential guide to the factors that have shaped the modern critical reception of the earliest English
This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies. Addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme. Embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with reference to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more
Bibliography: p. [321]-328
Includes indexes
Related MaterialBlackwell guides to criticism
Periodical TitleBlackwell guides to criticism
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