Words and Works : Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Toronto Old English Studies .
- Toronto Old English Studies .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Who Read the Gospels in Old English? -- Byrhtferth at Work -- An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 -- An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf -- Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature -- Ęšelflęd of Mercia: Mise en page -- Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism -- The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated -- Mapelian in Old English Poetry -- Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses -- The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts -- When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book -- Chaucer's English Rhymes: The Roman, the Romaunt, and The Book of the Duchess -- Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in The Miller's Tale -- Why the Monk? -- The Real Fulk Fitzwarine's Mythical Monster Fights -- Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn.
With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, this book is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis.
9781442683631
English philology-Old English, ca. 450-1100. English philology-Middle English, 1100-1500. Rhetoric, Medieval.