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Readings in Medieval Texts
Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature

Edited by David F. Johnson and Elaine Treharne

Price: £24.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926163-5
Publication date: 10 March 2005
412 pages, 8pp halftone plates, 216x138 mm
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  • 'Essays are intended for students undertaking beginning coursework in medieval literature and thus tend to offer general overviews of the topic at hand as well as models of close reading and textual analysis.' - The Years Work in English Studies
  • 'valuable additions to the scholarship on medieval literature...extremely useful for teachers faced with a new, confused crop of undergraduates each year' - Cory J. Rushton, Nottingham Medieval Studies
  • 'This collection of twenty-five essays achieves good coverage and balance...we should all order this book for our institutional libraries of course, but it is also a book that we could justifiably recommend for student purchase.' - Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland

Description
  • First volume to combine close critical analysis of both Old and Middle English
  • Offers readings of a broad range of canonical and non-canonical texts, including poetic, dramatic and prose works
  • Places texts within their genre and context in a clear and accessible fashion
  • Allows students to develop skills of critical analysis directly applicable to an extensive range of texts
Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars.

An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes.

This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.






Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in the UK, US and ROW studying medieval literature.

Contents
Introduction , David F. Johnson and Elaine Treharne
1. The context of medieval literature , Elaine Treharne
2. Old English religious poetry , Sarah Larratt Keefer
3. The Old English elegy: an historicization , Patrick Conner
4. 'Tell me what I am': the Old English riddles , Jonathan Wilcox
5. Warring with words: Cynewulf's Juliana , Jill Frederick
6. Old English heroic literature , Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr.
7. Beowulf: monuments, moments, history , Roy Liuzza
8. History and memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Thomas A. Bredehoft
9. The persuasive power of Alfredian prose , Nicole Guenther Discenza
10. Old English religious prose: rhetorics of salvation and damnation , Thomas N. Hall
11. Centralizing feminism in Anglo-Saxon Literary Studies: Elene, motherhood, and history , Stacy S. Klein
12. Wise words: Old English sapiental poetry , Thomas D. Hill
13. Middle English didactic literature , James H. Morey
14. Middle English writings for women: Ancrene Wisse , Denis Renevey
15. The Middle English Brut chronicles , David F. Johnson
16. Earlier verse romance , Peter J. Lucas
17. Middle English debate literature , Alan J. Fletcher
18. Religious writing by Women , Mary Swan
19. The Gawain-poet , Michael W. Twomey
20. Middle English prologues , Andrew Galloway
21. The Middle English lyrics , Anne Marie D'Arcy
22. Medieval dream visions: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess , William A. Quinn
23. Late romance: Malory and the Tale of Balin , Ad Putter
24. Scottish literature , Nicola Royan
25. Medieval drama: the Corpus Christi in York and Croxton , Greg Walker

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by David F. Johnson, Director of the Interdisciplinary Programme in the Humanities at Florida State University. and
Elaine Treharne, Head of the English Department and Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester.

Contributors:Professor Elaine Treharne, Leicester University
Professor Patrick Conner, West Virginia University
Professor Rolf H. Bremmer, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Professor Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Professor Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University, Canada
Professor Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa
Dr Thomas Bredehoft, University of Northern Colorado
Dr Nicole Guenther Discenza, University of South Florida
Professor Thomas N. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago
Professor Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers University
Professor Thomas D. Hill, Cornell University
Professor James Morey, Emory University
Professor Jill Frederick, Minnesota State University
Dr Denis Renevey, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Professor David Johnson, Florida State University
Professor Peter Lucas, Wolfson College, Cambridge
Dr Ad Putter, University of Bristol
Dr Alan J. Fletcher, University College, Dublin
Dr Mary Swan, University of Leeds
Professor Michael Twomey, Ithaca College
Professor Andrew Galloway, Cornell University
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy, University of Leicester
Professor William A. Quinn, University of Arkansas
Dr Nicola Royan, University of Nottingham
Professor Greg Walker, University of Leicester




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