Old English Medievalism (eBook, PDF)

Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Redaktion: Fletcher, Rachel A.; Traxel, Oliver M.; Porck, Thijs

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800108066
• Artikelnr.: 65738617

Autorenporträt

Edited by Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of
Abbreviations Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to
Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M.
Traxel 1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry
1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton
and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell 2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old
English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) -
Victoria Condie 3 Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and
Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton's Wulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo 4 Old
English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in
Museums - Fran Allfrey II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language
in Historical Fiction 5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two
Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel 6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate:
The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake (2014) -
Judy Kendall 7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of
Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly 8 Historical Friction: Constructing
Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson III
Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English 9 Ge wordful, ge wordig:
Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler 10 Fruit, Fat and
Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old English Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatovi¿ 11 The Fall of the King and the
Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual IV Approaching Old
English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom 12 Mitchell & Robinson's
Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy -
Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany 13 The
Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele
Knappe Bibliography Index