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Old English Prose : Basic Readings, PDF eBook

Old English Prose : Basic Readings PDF

Edited by Paul E. Szarmach

Part of the Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England series

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With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion.

The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations.

The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies.

Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.

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