Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse / / 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, T...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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