Studies in English Language and Literature: Doubt Wisely
Editat de M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 1996
Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English metre and syntax, Beowulf, the origins and development of standard English, the definitions of Old English words and their connotations, the styles and themes of Old English poems, Middle English poetry and prose, the post-medieval reception of medieval works and the styles, themes and sources of Old English poetry and prose.
M.J. Toswell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.E.M. Tyler is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
---|---|---|
Paperback (1) | 350.07 lei 6-8 săpt. | |
Taylor & Francis – 14 apr 2014 | 350.07 lei 6-8 săpt. | |
Hardback (1) | 1769.00 lei 6-8 săpt. | |
Taylor & Francis – 31 oct 1996 | 1769.00 lei 6-8 săpt. |
Preț: 1769.00 lei
Preț vechi: 2157.32 lei
-18% Nou
Puncte Express: 2654
Preț estimativ în valută:
338.66€ • 352.02$ • 280.78£
338.66€ • 352.02$ • 280.78£
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 05-19 februarie 25
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415138482
ISBN-10: 0415138485
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415138485
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.91 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction; 1: On language and linguistics; 1: Names will never hurt me; 2: The vocabulary of very late Old English; 3: Late copies of Anglo-Saxon charters; 4: Reasonable doubt, reasoned choice; 5: Alexander Ellis and the virtues of doubt; 6: About the evolution of Standard English; 2: On words and phrases; 7: Grendel's arm and the law; 8: Does wyrd bið ful arœd mean Tate is wholly inexorable'?; 9: Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720; 10: The sword mightier than the pen?; 11: Metrical stress on alliterating finite verbs in clause-initial a-verses; 12: Old English habban+ past participle of a verb of motion; 3: On the interpretation of a single text; 13: Doubt and time in La3amon's Brut; 14: Unscholarly Latinity and Margery Kempe; 15: Doubts about Medea, Briseyda, and Helen; 16: Woman-kenitings in the G?sla saga Súrssonar; 17: ‘Symtyme the fende'; 18: Medieval ‘allegorical imagery' in c. 1630; 4: On taxonomies, genres, and sources; 19: The swallow's nest and the spider's web; 20: The idea of the ‘Christian epic'; 21: Ælfric's sources reconsidered; 22: Ulysses and Circe in King Alfred's Boethius; 23: Poetic inspiration and prosaic translation; 24: The metre of the Ormulum; 5: On Assumptions; 25: Textual boundaries in Anglo-Saxon works on time (and in some Old English poems); 26: Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the discovery of the individual in Old English verse; 27: St Æthelthryth; 28: Tacitus, Old English heroic poetry, and ethnographic preconceptions; 29: How deliberate is deliberate verbal repetition?
Descriere
This collection is in honour of E.G. Stanley. They apply Stanley's approach of 'wise scepticism' to provide new and exciting readings of difficult and rewarding fields, including Old English metre and verse and Beowulf.