The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521032704)

The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences, and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack constructs a reading of the poetry that takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts. In a detailed analysis, which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, she argues that the idea of "verse sequences" should replace the "poem" and "implied tradition" should replace the idea of "the author".

Author: Carol Braun Pasternack
ISBN-10: 0521032709
ISBN-13: 9780521032704
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d