The Old English elegies [[electronic resource] ] : a critical edition and genre study / / Anne L. Klinck

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782722803321
• Autore: Klinck Anne Lingard <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1992
• ISBN: 1-282-85558-1; 9786612855580; 0-7735-6290-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (518 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.1
• Soggetti: Elegiac poetry, English (Old); Elegiac poetry, English (Old) - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.; Poems in Old English, and in Latin with English translations.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. [305]-376.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Plates -- Introduction -- The Poems and the Manuscript -- Texts and Textual Notes -- The Nature of Elegy in Old English -- Some Analogues -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Word-Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The nine elegies have all been edited separately between 1933 and 1983. Klinck builds on the extensive previous scholarship in the field and also draws on recently available materials - notably the microfiche Concordances, the first letters of the new Old English Dictionary, and Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax - to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse: she moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegy.