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Old English Literature: A Short Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780631234869)
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Daniel Donoghue
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xThis innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature is structured around what the author calls 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
Author: Daniel Donoghue
ISBN-10: 0631234861
ISBN-13: 9780631234869
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2004
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.24w x 0.49d
- An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature.
- Structured around 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar.
- Situates Old English literary texts within a cultural framework.
- Creates new connections between different genres, periods and authors.
- Combines close textual analysis with historical context.
- Based on the author's many years experience of teaching Old English literature.
- The author is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001) and recently published with Blackwell Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003).
Author: Daniel Donoghue
ISBN-10: 0631234861
ISBN-13: 9780631234869
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2004
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.24w x 0.49d
By Daniel Donoghue
xDaniel Donoghue is the John P. Marquand Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (2003), Style in Old English Poetry (1987) and is co-editor with Seamus Heaney of Beowulf: A Verse Translation (2001).
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