Words and Works

by Baker, Peter S.; Howe, Nicholas; Robinson, Fred C.

• ISBN13: 9780802041531
• ISBN10: 0802041531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

With contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field, this book is a distinguished collection of essays on Old and Middle English literature and textual analysis.

Author Biography

PETER S. BAKER is a member of the Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. NICHOLAS HOWE is the Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	vii	(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix	(2)
ABBREVIATIONS	xi
Who Read the Gospels in Old English?	3	(22)
ROY MICHAEL LIUZZA, Tulane University
Byrhtferth at Work	25	(20)
MICHAEL LAPIDGE, Cambridge University
An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74	45	(14)
DANIEL DONOGHUE, Harvard University
An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf	59	(8)
MICHIKO OGURA, Chiba University
Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature	67	(38)
ERIC GERALD STANLEY, Oxford University
AEoelflaed of Mercia: Mise en page	105	(22)
PAUL E. SZARMACH, Western Michigan University
Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism	127	(16)
HELMUT GNEUSS, University of Munich
The Dream of the Road Repunctuated	143	(16)
BRUCE MITCHELL, Oxford University
Mapelian in Old English Poetry	159	(14)
MATTI RISSANEN, University of Helsinki
Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses	173	(14)
MARY E. BLOCKLEY, University of Texas at Austin
The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts	187	(20)
PETER S. BAKER, University of Virginia
When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book	207	(16)
ROBERTA FRANK, University of Toronto
Chaucer's English Rhymes: The Roman, the Romaunt, and The Book of the Duchess	223	(20)
MARIE BORROFF, Yale University
Seeking `Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in The Miller's Tale	243	(18)
DAVID LORENZO BOYD, New York City
Why the Monk?	261	(10)
SIEGFRIED WENZEL, University of Pennsylvania
The Real Fulk Fitzwarine's Mythical Monster Fights	271	(22)
MARIJANE OSBORN, University of California at Davis
Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn	293
NICHOLAS HOWE, Ohio State University