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Title

Studies in English language and literature : doubt wisely : papers in honour of E.G. Stanley / edited by M.J. Toswell and E.M. Tyler.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Stanley, Eric Gerald.
• Toswell, M. J.
• Tyler, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), 1965-

Description

xiii, 545 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Written by scholars he has supervised, examined, or otherwise served as mentor for within the last twenty years, the contributions illustrate the advantages of following John Donne's axiom to 'doubt wisely'.
• Professor Stanley's own published work has shown the utility of wise scepticism as a critical stance; these papers presented to him apply similar approaches to a wide variety of texts, most of them in the field of Old or Middle English literature. The primary focus of the collection is on the close reading of words in their immediate context, which commonly entails a reconsideration of accepted assumptions.
• Consequently, new links are created here among the disciplines in medieval studies, based on various combinations of these scholarly applications.

Subjects

• English philology > Middle English, 1100-1500
• English philology > Old English, ca. 450-1100

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / M. J. Toswell and E. M. Tyler -- 1. Names will never hurt me / Fran Colman -- 2. The vocabulary of very late Old English / Andreas Fischer -- 3. Late copies of Anglo-Saxon charters / Christine Franzen -- 4. Reasonable doubt, reasoned choice: the letter A in the Dictionary of Old English / Antonette diPaolo Healey -- 5. Alexander Ellis and the virtues of doubt / L. C. Mugglestone -- 6. About the evolution of Standard English / Laura Wright -- 7. Grendel's arm and the law / Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. -- 8. Does wyrd bio ful aroed mean 'Fate is wholly inexorable'? / Mark S. Griffith -- 9. Old English swefn and Genesis B line 720 / Antonina Harbus -- 10. The sword mightier than the pen? Hrothgar's hit, theory, and philology / Jams I. McNelis III -- 11. Metrical stress on alliterating finite verbs in clause-initial a-verses: 'some doubts and no conclusions' / H. Momma -- 12. Old English habban + past participle of a verb of motion / Michiko Ogura --
• 13. Doubt and time in Lazamon's Brut / Marie-Francoise Alamichel -- 14. Unscholarly Latinity and Margery Kempe / Melissa Furrow -- 15. Doubts about Medea, Briseyda, and Helen: interpreting classical allusion in the fourteenth-century French ballade Medee fu en amer veritable / Nicola F. McDonald -- 16. Woman-kennings in the Gisla saga Surssonar: a study / Karin Olsen -- 17. 'Symtyme the fende': questions of rape in Sir Gowther / Corinne J. Saunders -- 18. Medieval 'allegorical imagery' in c. 1630: Will. Baspoole's revision of The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhole / Kathryn Walls -- 19. The swallow's nest and the spider's web / E. Ruth Harvey -- 20. The idea of the 'Christian epic': towards a history of an Old English poetic genre / Ivan Herbison -- 21. AElfric's sources reconsidered: some case studies from the Catholic Homilies / Joyce Hill -- 22. Ulysses and Circe in King Alfred's Boethius: a classical myth transformed / Susan Irvine --
• 23. Poetic inspiration and prosaic translation: the making of Coedmon's Hymn / Andy Orchard -- 24. The metre of the Ormulum / Elizabeth Solopova -- 25. Textual boundaries in Anglo-Saxon works on time (and in some Old English poems) / Peter S. Baker -- 26. Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the discovery of the individual in Old English verse / Fiona Gameson and Richard Gameson -- 27. St AEthelthryth: the making of history from hagiography / Pauline A. Thompson -- 28. Tacitus, Old English heroic poetry, and ethnographic preconceptions / M. J. Toswell -- 29. How deliberate is deliberate verbal repetition? / Elizabeth M. Tyler.

ISBN

0415138485 (hbk)

LCCN

95043677

OCLC

• 229910773
• ocn229910773

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries