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Item Details
| Title:
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OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE
A SHORT INTRODUCTION |
| By: |
Daniel Donoghue |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£93.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0631234853 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780631234852 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
25 March, 2004 |
| Series: |
Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
This 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. * An innovative and intriguing introduction to Old English literature. |
| Synopsis: |
This 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. * 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). |
| Illustrations: |
0 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Blackwell Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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