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This collection of 29 papers is in honor of E. G. Stanley. Written by scholars he has supervised within the last 20 years, the essays gathered here illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom "doubt wisely." The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English meter and syntax, "Beowulf, " the origins and development of standard English, Middle English poetry and prose and the post-medieval receptions of medieval works.
This collection of 29 papers is in honor of E. G. Stanley. Written by scholars he has supervised within the last 20 years, the essays gathered here illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom "doubt wisely." The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context. Contributors provide new analyses of such difficult but rewarding fields as Old English meter and syntax, "Beowulf, " the origins and development of standard English, Middle English poetry and prose and the post-medieval receptions of medieval works.
Introduction; 1: On language and linguistics; 1: Names will never hurt me; 2: The vocabulary of very late Old English; 3: Late copies of Anglo-Saxon charters; 4: Reasonable doubt, reasoned choice; 5: Alexander Ellis and the virtues of doubt; 6: About the evolution of Standard English; 2: On words and phrases; 7: Grendel's arm and the law; 8: Does wyrd bið ful arœd mean Tate is wholly inexorable'?; 9: Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720; 10: The sword mightier than the pen?; 11: Metrical stress on alliterating finite verbs in clause-initial a-verses; 12: Old English habban+ past participle of a verb of motion; 3: On the interpretation of a single text; 13: Doubt and time in La3amon's Brut; 14: Unscholarly Latinity and Margery Kempe; 15: Doubts about Medea, Briseyda, and Helen; 16: Woman-kenitings in the G?sla saga Súrssonar; 17: ‘Symtyme the fende'; 18: Medieval ‘allegorical imagery' in c. 1630; 4: On taxonomies, genres, and sources; 19: The swallow's nest and the spider's web; 20: The idea of the ‘Christian epic'; 21: Ælfric's sources reconsidered; 22: Ulysses and Circe in King Alfred's Boethius; 23: Poetic inspiration and prosaic translation; 24: The metre of the Ormulum; 5: On Assumptions; 25: Textual boundaries in Anglo-Saxon works on time (and in some Old English poems); 26: Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the discovery of the individual in Old English verse; 27: St Æthelthryth; 28: Tacitus, Old English heroic poetry, and ethnographic preconceptions; 29: How deliberate is deliberate verbal repetition?
M. J. Toswell, E. M. Tyler
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