The Textuality of Old English Poetry

by Carol Braun Pasternack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032709
• ISBN13: 9780521032704
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"