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Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts
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JOHN D. NILES, Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts. Studies in the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Pp. xiii, 372. ISBN: 978-2-503-52080-3. 80.
Like its recently released companion volume, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts, this volume brings together a number of John Niles's innovative articles, supplements them, and in the process offers a stimulating and original contribution to Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Here, in an Introduction that identifies various critical schools as 'flights from meaning,' Niles lays out the critical procedure that has been the hallmark of his career: a close attention to philology of the most traditional …
