The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780773522411)

The nine elegies have all been edited separately between 1933 and 1983. Klinck builds on the extensive previous scholarship in the field and also draws on recently available materials - notably the microfiche Concordances, the first letters of the new Old English Dictionary, and Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax - to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse: she moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegy.

Author: Anne L. Klinck
ISBN-10: 0773522417
ISBN-13: 9780773522411
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2001
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.12w x 1.36d