The Natural World In The Exeter Book Riddles
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The Natural World In The Exeter Book Riddles
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Author : Corinne Dale
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
The Natural World In The Exeter Book Riddles written by Corinne Dale and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.
The Exeter Book Riddles
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Exeter Book Riddles written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Humor categories.
"The ninety-six Anglo-Saxon riddles in the eleventh-century Exeter Book are poems of great charm, zest, and subtlety. Ranging from natural phenomena (such as icebergs and storms at sea) to animal and bird life, from the Christian concept of the creation to prosaic domestic objects (such as a rake and a pair of bellows), and from weaponry to the peaceful pursuits of music and writing, they are full of sharp observation, earthly humour and, above all, a sense of wonder. The main text of this volume contains Kevin Crossley-Holland's newly-revised translations of seventy-five fascinating and discursive riddles - all those not very badly damaged or impenetrably obscure - while a further sixteen are translated in the notes. These translations are very widely anthologised in Britain and the USA. Sir Arthur Bliss and William Mathias set some of them to music, Ralph Steadman has illustrated them and Michael Fairfax has incorporated them in his Riddle Sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.
Old English Riddles From The Exeter Book
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Author : Michael Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Learning Links
Release Date : 1980
Old English Riddles From The Exeter Book written by Michael Alexander and has been published by Learning Links this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Humor categories.
Unlike most of the Old English poetry preserved in the Exeter Book, the Riddles are secular poems, robustly celebrating the familiar objects and natural world of eighth-century England. Michael Alexander presents a selection of these ingenious and enigmatic poems in versions which capture their peculiar concision, suggestion and vigour of language. Michael Alexander is a poet and the translator of The Earliest English Poems and Beowulf (both Penguin Classics).
The Husband S Message The Accompanying Riddles Of The Exeter Book
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Author : Francis Adelbert Blackburn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
The Husband S Message The Accompanying Riddles Of The Exeter Book written by Francis Adelbert Blackburn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with Exeter book categories.
Representations Of The Natural World In Old English Poetry
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Author : Jennifer Neville
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-13
Representations Of The Natural World In Old English Poetry written by Jennifer Neville and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions experienced by the Anglo-Saxons - the animals, diseases, landscapes, seas and weather with which they had to contend. She argues that poetic descriptions of these elements were not a reflection of the existing physical conditions but a literary device used by Anglo-Saxons to define more important issues: the state of humanity, the creation and maintenance of society, the power of individuals, the relationship between God and creation and the power of writing to control information. Examples of contemporary literature in other languages are used to provide a sense of Old English poetry's particular approach, which incorporated elements from Germanic, Christian and classical sources. The result of this approach was not a consistent cosmological scheme but a rather contradictory vision which reveals much about how the Anglo-Saxons viewed themselves.
Riddles At Work In The Early Medieval Tradition
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Author : Megan Cavell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Riddles At Work In The Early Medieval Tradition written by Megan Cavell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with categories.
The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions.
Anglo Saxon Riddles
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Author : John Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Anglo Saxon Riddles written by John Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This book is full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles. Here you will meet a one-eyed garlic seller, a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon and a host of others from the everyday life and imagination of the early English. John Porter's translations retain all the vigour and subtlety of the original Old English poems, transporting us back over a thousand years to the roots of our language and literature.
Materializing Englishness In Early Medieval Texts
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Author : Jacqueline Fay
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-02
Materializing Englishness In Early Medieval Texts written by Jacqueline Fay and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and soil, among other things, that would have characterized it for the early medieval English themselves. In particular, each chapter demonstrates how a productive collapse, or fusion, between place and history happens not only in the intellectual realm, in ideas, but is also a material concern, becoming enfleshed in encounters between early medieval bodies and a host of material entities. Through readings of texts in a wide variety of genres including hagiography, heroic poetry, and medical and historical works, the book argues that Englishness during this period is an embodied identity emergent at the frontier of material and textual interactions that serve productively to occlude history, religion, and geography. The early medieval English body thus results from the rich encounter between the lived environment—climate, soil, landscape features, plants—and the textual-discursive realm that both determines what that environment means and is also itself determined by the material constraints of everyday life.
The Life Course In Old English Poetry
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Author : Harriet Soper
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-30
The Life Course In Old English Poetry written by Harriet Soper and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, exploring how poets depicted varied paths through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
The Oxford Encyclopedia Of British Literature
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Author : David Scott Kastan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-03
The Oxford Encyclopedia Of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl