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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780555903321

Titolo

Words and works : : studies in medieval English language and literature in honour of Fred C. Robinson / / edited by Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-282-02554-6

9786612025549

1-4426-8363-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Toronto Old English Series

Disciplina

429

Soggetti

English philology - Old English, ca. 450-1100

English philology - Middle English, 1100-1500

Rhetoric, Medieval

Livres numeriques.

Festschriften

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Mittelenglisch

Altenglisch

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Who Read the Gospels in Old English? / Roy Michael Liuzza -- Byrhtferth at Work / Michael Lapidge -- An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 / Daniel Donoghue -- An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf / Michiko Ogura -- Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature / Eric Gerald Stanley -- Aeoelflaed of Mercia: Mise en page / Paul E. Szarmach -- Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism / Helmut Gneuss -- The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated / Bruce



Mitchell -- Mapelian in Old English Poetry / Matti Rissanen -- Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses / Mary E. Blockley -- The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts / Peter S. Baker.

Sommario/riassunto

"With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis. Focusing on issues ranging from philology to literary criticism, the essays represent a variety of perspectives in Old and Middle English scholarship."--Jacket.