The Interpretation of Old English Poems (Routledge Library Editions: The Anglo-saxon World)

Greenfield, Stanley B.

Routledge（2023/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 196 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032543062
• DDC分類 829.1

Full Description

The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a blinkered philological tradition. He suggests ways in which the practical criticism of Old English poetry and poems can be conducted, and provides the means for a student to form his own critical approach. The book is particularly challenging in that it brings literary criticism into a field which has hitherto belonged largely to historians and linguists.

Contents

1. Towards a Critical Framework 2. Expectations and Implications in Diction and Formula 3. The Uses of Variation 4. The Play of Sound and Sense 5. Verse Form, Syntax and Meaning 6. Generic Expectations and the Quest for Allegory