Old English Literature

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A Guide to Criticism with Selected Readings

By John D. Niles

Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

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Old English Literature by John D. Niles offers a comprehensive review of the critical reception of Old English works from 1900 to the present. The book moves beyond individual texts to explore the various schools, methods, and assumptions shaping the discipline. It examines key authors and works such as Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. The text also engages with questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, while addressing themes of style, gender, genre, and theme. This interdisciplinary approach includes insights from history, religious studies, anthropology, and art history.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of medieval literature and history, as well as readers interested in the development of literary criticism and interdisciplinary studies of Old English texts.

This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline.

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This review of the critical reception of Old English Literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts, surveying the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline.

It examines notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. The discussion reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies.

The book addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme. It embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field by referencing historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more.

Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

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ISBN: 9780631220572

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 May 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 352

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Education & Reference John D. Niles Non-Fiction Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

About the Author

John D. Niles is Professor of Humanities at the University of Winsconsin, Madison. He is a specilist in Old English language and literature and, more generally, the early medieval culture of the British Isles. The author or editor of a dozen books relating to Beowulf and other works of Old English literature, he has also conducted field research into living traditions of oral literature. He is the current President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (2010-2012)

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