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Books on: old english literature

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A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature

Book by Laura Cooner Lambdin, Robert Thomas Lambdin; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature with chapters focusing on particular genres, such as: Allegorical Verse; Balladry; Beast Fable; Chronicle; Debate Poetry; Epic and Heroic; Lyric; Middle English Parody/Burlesque; Religious and Allegorical Verse; and ...
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This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature with chapters focusing on particular genres, such as: Allegorical Verse; Balladry; Beast Fable; Chronicle; Debate Poetry; Epic and Heroic; Lyric; Middle English Parody/Burlesque; Religious and Allegorical Verse; and Romance. Expert contributors define the primary characteristics of each genre and discuss relevant literary works. Chapters provide extensive reviews of scholarship and close with detailed bibliographies. A more thorough bibliography of major scholarly studies closes the book.
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English Literature from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest

Book by Stopford A. Brooke; Macmillan, 1899

Subjects:

English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Anglo-Saxon or Old English Literature up to the Conquest...EARLY BRITAIN TO ENGLISH LITERATURE 1...CHAPTER II OLD ENGLlSH HEATHEN...THE PASSING OF OLD ENGLISH 300...335 ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNING...
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English Literature: Medieval

Book by W. P. Ker; Henry Holt, 1926

Subjects:

English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with the old languages...in Middle English with Chaucer...history of literature. Anglo...Middle English literature is cut off...though the old alliterative...does the old English literature prove...
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English Literature before Chaucer

Book by P. G. Thomas; E. Arnold & co., 1924

Subjects:

English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of origins, while Old English literature, in general, is...without parallel in Old English literature., The rhyme forms...with proverbial literature justifies their inclusion here. The Old English Gnomic verses represent...
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National Life and Character in the Mirror of Early English Literature

Book by Edmund Dale; University Press, 1907

Subjects:

England--Social Life And Customs, English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the point that it is, in the main, the literature which speaks, and not himself. Though...CHAPTER I. To about 650 A.D. The Englishman of the Conquest 2...heaven -- Opposition -- Blending of the old and new faiths -- Christianity itself...

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Journal Articles on: old english literature

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An Ideal Marriage: Abraham and Sarah in Old English Literature

Journal article by Daniel Anlezark; Medium Aevum, Vol. 69, 2000

Subjects:

Abraham (Biblical figure)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Anglo-Saxon poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible. O.T. (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Genesis: An Epic Poem (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women in the Bible--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...MARRIAGE: ABRAHAM AND SARAH IN OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE. by DANIEL ANLEZARK...neglected in the discussion of Old English literature. The reason for this neglect...New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, ed. Helen Damico and Alexandra...
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Anthropological Approaches to Old English Literature: A Special Issue

Journal article by John M. Hill; Philological Quarterly, 1999

Subjects:

Anglo-Saxon literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Anglo-Saxons--Literature, Historical sociology--Research

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Anthropological Approaches to Old English Literature: A Special Issue...that follow address Old English literature from within the several...agents (John Hill); old stories become ways...institutions and new literatures both appropriate older...
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Peter Dendle, Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature

Journal article by Richard Dance; Medium Aevum, Vol. 72, 2003

Subjects:

Satan Unbound: the Devil in Old English Narrative Literature (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...roles taken by the devil in Old English literature (from the homilies to the...really be said to belong to Old English literature in particular, as opposed...material, and students of Old English literature will find it a useful way...
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Empire, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb's Consumer Imagination

Journal article by Karen Fang; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 43, 2003

Subjects:

English literature, Essay, Essays, Lamb, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Old China (Essay)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...social-instruction literature--such as the...formal models for "Old China"--which...quintessentially English scene of tea...Company with English-manufactured "old blue," intended...manufacture in English literature, see Lydia H...
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Revisiting "Mr. Bennett": Pleasure, Aversion, and the Social in the Old Wives' Tale and Riceyman Steps

Journal article by Jason B. Jones; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 46, 2003

Subjects:

Bennett, Arnold--Criticism and interpretation, English fiction--Social aspects, English modern period (Literature), Riceyman Steps (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Old Wives' Tale (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Self-Advertisement in The Old Wives Tale," in Seeing Double...Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature, Carola M. Kaplan and Anne B...Arnold Bennett, "Preface" to The Old Wives Tale, John Wain, ed...Introduction," in Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives Tale, John Wain, ed...

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Magazine Articles on: old english literature

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The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh

Magazine article by Joseph William Goetz; The Antioch Review, Vol. 64, Winter 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Catholic Revival in English Literature: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh, 1845-1961 (Book), The Catholic Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman...Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and...twentieth-century English literature a service by...Revolution: New Wine, Old Wineskins, and...Catholic revival in English literature has shaped Anglophone...
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Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures

Magazine article; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Beowulf and Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures. Beowulf...Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures. Richard...stories in Old English, Old Icelandic or Anglo-Norman literatures really are...
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Mexican Masters of Literature

Magazine article by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, March 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, El tren pasa primero (Book)--Book reviews, Obras reunidas I: Narrativa breve (Book)--Book reviews, The Eagle's Throne (Book)--Book reviews, This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Mexican Masters of Literature. by Elizabeth...elections, but its English translation was...the centuries-old resistance of...new year. No English translation of...Galvan, a 45-year-old prostitute who...history, and literature, along with some...transformed sex into literature and, by the end...
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A History of the English Bible as Literature

Magazine article by Susan M. Felch; The Christian Century, Vol. 118, November 7, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, History of the English Bible as Literature (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...his own revised translation. Bobrick, trained in English and comparative literature and the author of histories ranging from the American...pastiche," based on Tyndales own translations of the Old and New Testaments as well as the Vulgate and contemporary...
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Wry Modernist of Brazil's Past: Often Considered the Father of His Country's Literature, Machado De Assis Created Humorous and Dark Works of Implicit Social Criticism, Free of the Conventions of His Nineteenth-Century Rio

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, November 2002

Subjects:

Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Influence, Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de--Works, Authors, Brazilian--Influence, Authors, Brazilian--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...father of Brazilian literature. Rio de Janeiro...Longfellows "The Old Clock on the Stairs...Schopenhauer was a jolly old man." I first encountered...father of Brazilian literature. "I admit that when...Review: Latin American Literature and Arts contained...Cranky." The wealthy old narrator, who has...

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Newspaper Articles on: old english literature

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STUDENTS FUME AT EXAM MIX-UP; Questions Not Set for English Literature Paper

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 17, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...arrived for their English Literature exam on Thursday morning...It seems bizarre to the English department that the board...The mother of a 16-year-old pupil said: "My daughter...was sent to all Heads of English in all centres."
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Ancient Manuscript Rescued from the Parlour Fire; LOCAL HISTORY the Chance Discovery of an Ancient Manuscript Led to Changes in the World of English Literature

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 18, 2006

Subjects:

Percy, Thomas

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the seminal moments in English literature, equal to the untimely...was then only 24-years-old or so. So lets skip over...household care for the old book that the maids had...manuscripts of early English poetry, as important...
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Coward, Charlatan, Liar, Flashman Is One of the Greatest Rotters of English Literature. Yet His Creator, George MacDonald Fraser, Used Him to Cock a Glorious Snook at the Politically Correct, Milksop Nation We've Become; Remarkable: Flashman the Villain. Inset, George Fraser

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 4, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Greatest Rotters of English Literature. Yet His Creator, George...Flashman also loses none ofhis old school-bully tastes, relishing...Flashman. Although the old rogue is a tremendous coward...and isnt any more. In old age, he wrote with much...
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THE ENGLISH INQUISITION; Eighty -Minute Police Interrogation for Couple Who Dared to Suggest Displaying Christian Literature Next to Gay Leaflets in a Town Hall

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 23, 2005

Subjects:

Police, Police officers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

THE ENGLISH INQUISITION...Displaying Christian Literature Next to Gay Leaflets...Roberts, a 73-year-old former carpenter...and his 68-year-old wife, who have...distributing gay rights literature in council buildings...distribute Christian literature in the same places...
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English Professor Puts Literature on a Leash

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 13, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and freshman English, Mr. Gordon...on dogs in literature, from Homers...childrens classic "Old Yeller." The...the 55-year-old Mr. Gordon...on dogs in literature. "Its a serious...ago during an English faculty discussion...on dogs in literature. People began...but "after `Old Yeller and...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: old english literature

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Old English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

OLD ENGLISH see type ; English language ; Anglo-Saxon literature . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Old Norse Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...poetry, in a vain attempt to promote and preserve the old techniques. As scaldic poetry declined, new forms rose...verse developed, somewhat analogous to that in Middle English literature and used for much the same purpose translation and...
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English Language

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was a London dialect. It is convenient to divide English into periods Old English (or Anglo-Saxon; to c.1150), Middle English (to c.1500; see Middle English literature ), and Modern English; this division implies no discontinuity, for even...
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Gaelic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...This early Celtic literature is characterized...coming in the extreme old age of Ossian...coming of the Norman English in the 12th and 13th...culture were some English-speaking Protestants...translator of the Old Testament. The penal...this time Gaelic literature served to keep alive...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Connecticut Wits , used English models. The infant American...seminal works of American literature were written during...even the romance of the Old South woven by the poetry...some of the works of English and Continental playwrights...connection of American literature with writing in England...

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