Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843846500 ISBN 13 : 9781843846505

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2022

Synopsis

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary.

THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University.

Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world.

M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.

Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843846500
• ISBN 13: 9781843846505
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Fletcher Dr Rachel A., Porck Thijs, Traxel Professor Oliver M.
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