Old English Literature

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<p>This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline.</p><ul><li>Examines the notable works and authors from the period, including<i>Beowulf</i>, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature</li><li>Reinforces key perspectives with excerpts from ten critical studies</li><li>Addresses questions of medieval literacy, textuality, and orality, as well as style, gender, genre, and theme</li><li>Embraces the interdisciplinary nature of the field with reference to historical studies, religious studies, anthropology, art history, and more</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>John D. Niles</b> is the Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. A former President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, he is the author or editor of a dozen books on Old English literature and related topics, including<i>The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066­1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2015) and<i>Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition</i>(1983).</p>

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