Emily V. Thornbury

Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study of pre-Conquest English poets that rethinks the social role of Anglo-Saxon verse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781107643079
• ISBN-10: 1107643074
• Artikelnr.: 45157112

Autorenporträt

Emily V. Thornbury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: how can we know about Anglo-Saxon poets?
1. What was a poet?
2. Who became poets?
3. The poet in the community
4. The poet alone
5. Spectral communities
Afterword: a way of happening
Appendix I. A handlist of named authors of Old English or Latin verse in Anglo-Saxon England
Appendix II. Skalds working in Anglo-Saxon England
Bibliography.