Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Visible Song

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9780521375504
• ISBN-10: 0521375509
• Artikelnr.: 21125386

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Orality and the developing text of Caedmon's Hymn
3. Speech, writing and power in Solomon and Saturn I
4. The writing of the Metrical Preface to Alfred's Pastoral Care
5. Poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
6. Interpreting, pointing and reading
7. Reading and pointing in the major poetic codices
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.