Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
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 natu...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Thomas A. Bredehoft
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442698413, 1442698411
- OCLC
- on1013950817
- 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