Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse / / Thomas A. Bredehoft.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bredehoft, Thomas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Bibliographic Note --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Authorship and Anonymity in Old English Verse --; 1. Manuscript Audiences and Other Audiences --; 2. The Audience for Saxon Songs in the Late Ninth Century --; 3. Literate Poetic Composition in Tenth-Century Classical Poems --; 4. What Has Ælfric to Do with Maldon? --; 5. Eleventh-Century Traditions of Formulaic Composition --; 6. Conclusion --; Appendix. Two Unrecognized Late Old English Poems --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442698413; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442698413
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas A. Bredehoft.

Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the nature of poetic authorship in Old English.Offering a new vision of much of Old English literary history, Thomas A. Bredehoft traces a tradition of 'literate-formulaic' composition in the period and contends that many phrases conventionally considered oral formulas are in fact borrowings or "ations. His identification of previously unrecognized Old English poems and his innovative arguments about the dates, places of composition, influences, and even possible authors for a variety of tenth- and eleventh-century poems illustrate that the failure of scholars to recognize the late Old English verse tradition has seriously hampered our literary understanding of the period. Provocative and bold, Authors, Audiences and Old English Verse has the potential to transform modern understandings of the classical Old English poetic tradition.