Words and works : : studies in medieval English language and literature in honour of Fred C. Robinson / / edited by Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe
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| 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
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998 |
| ©1998 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 429 |
| Soggetto topico: | English philology - Old English, ca. 450-1100 |
| English philology - Middle English, 1100-1500 | |
| Rhetoric, Medieval | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BakerPeter S <1952-> (Peter Stuart) |
| HoweNicholas | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Who Read the Gospels in Old English? -- Byrhtferth at Work -- An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 -- An Ogre’s Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf -- Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature -- Æðelflæd of Mercia: Mise en page -- Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism -- The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated -- Mapelian in Old English Poetry -- Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses -- The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts -- When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book -- Chaucer's English Rhymes: The Romany the Romaunt, and The Book of the Duchess -- Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in The Miller's Tale -- Why the Monk? -- The Real Fulk Fitzwarines Mythical Monster Fights -- Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn -- Backmatter |
| 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. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson is a worthy tribute to one of the outstanding figures in Old English scholarship in the last quarter of this century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Words and works |
| ISBN: | 1-282-02554-6 |
| 9786612025549 | |
| 1-4426-8363-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456448103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Toronto Old English series.