Old English Literature

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Old English Literature: A Short Introduction

Daniel Donoghue 2004

E-Book: 162 English Pages

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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This beginner’s guide to Old English literature is divided into sections on the representative “figures’ from Anglo-Saxon culture: the vow, the hall, the miracle, the pulpit and the scholar’. The discussion of themes and style crosses genres, including epic, laments, homilies, charters, biblical worlks, laments and riddles. The focus is very much on the connection between these genres rather than linguistic matters. Few extracts are included and these are accompanied by English translations.

Review

“As a means of aiding students to focus on particular aspects of Old English literature, this can hardly be bettered, and Donoghue’s close textual analyses and continued attention to Old English words and phrases are themselves an excellent example to beginners learning how to deal with these texts.”

—TOEBI Newsletter

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