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The Textuality of Old English Poetry

The Textuality of Old English Poetry

Pasternack, Carol Braun
Keynes, Simon
Carol Braun, Pasternack

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Book 13

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521032709
ISBN13: 9780521032704
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The modern reader knows Old English poetry as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences, and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack constructs a reading of the poetry that takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts. In a detailed analysis, which takes up issues current in poststructuralist theory, she argues that the idea of verse sequences should replace the poem and implied tradition should replace the idea of the author.

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