عنوان

Old English enigmatic poems and the play of the texts /

شابک

2503515304

شابک

9782503515304

عنوان اصلي

Old English enigmatic poems and the play of the texts /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by John D. Niles.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Turnhout [Belgium] :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brepols,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2006.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 330 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm.

عنوان فروست

Studies in the early Middle Ages ;

مشخصه جلد

v. 13

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

متن يادداشت

Old English poems and current readers -- Exeter Book riddle 74 and the play of the text -- Exeter Book riddle 55: some gallows humour -- New answers to Exeter Book riddles 36, 58, 70, and 75/76 -- Answering the riddles in their own tongue: Exeter Book riddle solutions in Old English -- The problem of the ending of The wife's lament: more on curses in the northern world -- The trick of the runes in The husband's message -- Runic hermeneutics in The rune poem: a bonus ship -- Cynewulf's use of initialisms in his runic signatures -- On the dance of wit and wisdom.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly drawn from the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are outright riddles, while others (such as the elegies) are riddle-like in their manner of simultaneously giving and withholding information. The author approaches these poems as microcosms of the art of Old English poetry in general, which (particularly in its more lyrical forms) relies on its audience's ability to decipher metaphorical language and to fill out details that remain unexpressed. The chief claim advanced is that Old English poetry is a good deal more playful than is often acknowledged, so that the art of interpreting it can require a kind of 'game strategy' whereby riddling authors match their wits against adventurous readers. Innovative readings of a number of poems are offered, while the whole collection of Exeter Book Riddles is given a set of answers posed in the language of the riddler. The literary use of runes in The Rune Poem, The Husband's Message, and Cynewulf's runic signatures comes under close scrutiny, and the thesis is advanced that Anglo-Saxon runes (particularly those that lacked stable conventional names) were sometimes used as initialisms. The book combines the methods of rigorous philology and imaginative literary analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

عنوان

Old English enigmatic poems and the play of the texts.

عنوان

Old English enigmatic poems and the play of the texts.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exeter book.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exeter book.

موضوع مستند نشده

The Exeter Book

موضوع مستند نشده

English poetry-- Old English, approximately 450-1100-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Riddles, English (Old)-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

18.05 English literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Altenglisch

موضوع مستند نشده

English poetry.

موضوع مستند نشده

Lyrik

موضوع مستند نشده

Rätsel

موضوع مستند نشده

Riddles, English (Old)

موضوع مستند نشده

Altenglisch.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Niles, John D.

تاريخ عمليات

20200823070257.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y