Unlocking the wordhord : Anglo-Saxon studies in memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. /

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Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 359 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	English philology -- Old English, ca. 450-1100. English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual. English literature -- Old English. English philology -- Old English. Electronic books. Festschriften. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Festschriften.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11286230

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Other authors / contributors:	O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine, 1948- Irving, Edward Burroughs, 1923- Amodio, Mark.
ISBN:	9781442682931 1442682930 1282033697 9781282033696 0802048226 9780802048226
Notes:	"A select bibliography of the writings of Edward B. Irving Jr": pages 313-314. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-345) and index.
Summary:	The Anglo-Saxons placed a great deal of importance on wisdom and learning, something Beowulf makes dramatically clear when he uses his 'wordhord' to command respect and admiration from his friends and foes alike. Modern day scholars no longer have recourse to the living language and culture of the Anglo-Saxons, and as a result must turn to their 'wordhords' - the literary, historical, and cultural artefacts that have survived in various degrees of intactness - to learn about life in Anglo-Saxon England. This collection of essays, gathered to honour the memory of the noted Anglo-Saxonist Edward B. Irving, Jr., brings together an international group of leading scholars who take the measure of Anglo-Saxon literary, textual, and lexical studies in the present moment. Ranging from philological and structural studies to ones that explicitly engage a variety of contemporary theoretical issues, they reflect the rich diversity of approaches to be found among Anglo-Saxonists. Subjects addressed include comparative work on Old English and Latin, and on Old English, ancient Greek, and South Slavic, notions of authorship and textual integrity, techniques of editing, heroic poetry, religious verse, lexicography, oral tradition, and material textuality. Offering a fresh reading of some popular pieces and inviting attention to some less-familiar texts, these previously unpublished essays illustrate the latest state of particular techniques for literary / critical analysis, textual recovery, and lexical studies.
Other form:	Print version: Unlocking the wordhord. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003 9780802048226
Publisher's no.:	9786612033698

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Falling into place : dislocation in the Junius Book / Nicholas Howe
Aelfric revises : the lives of Martin and the idea of the author / Paul E. Szarmach
'Beowulf' and scribal performance / A.N. Doane
How genres leak in traditional verse / John Miles Foley
A reading of Brunanburh / Donald Scragg
'lc' and 'We' in eleventh-century Old English liturgical verse / Sarah Larratt Keefer
Cynewulf and the Passio S. Iulianae / Michael Lapidge
King Cnut's grant of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury : a new reading of a damaged annal in two copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Timothy Graham
The fables of the Bayeux Tapestry : an Anglo-Saxon perspective / Gail Joy Berlin
N.F.S. Grundtvig's 1840 edition of the Old English Phoenix : a vision of a vision of paradise / Robert E. Bjork
Hrothgar's 'admirable courage' / Jane Roberts
Questions of fairness : fair, not fair and foul / Antonette diPaolo Healey
Bravery and the vocabulary of bravery in Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon / Janet Bately
Sex in the Dictionary of Old English / Roberta Frank.

Unlocking the wordhord : Anglo-Saxon studies in memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. /

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