Fletcher / Porck / Traxel Old English Medievalism

Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-806-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 21, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Medievalism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fletcher, Rachel A.

Porck, Thijs

Traxel, Oliver M.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fletcher, Rachel A.

Traxel, Oliver M.

Porck, Thijs

Toswell, M. J.

Condie, Victoria

Marzullo, Martina

Allfrey, Francesca

Kendall, Judy

Jolly, Karen Louise

Aitcheson, James

Kemmler, Fritz

Ferhatovic, Denis

Pascual, Rafael J.

Blanquer, Joana Marie Eileen

Ellard, Donna Beth

Hitchcock, Emma

Sweany, Erin E.

Knappe, Gabrielle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Ferhatovic
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

Über Autor(innen)

Fletcher Rachel A.:
Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary.Porck Thijs:
Thijs Porck is University Lecturer in Medieval English at Leiden University. He has published on Old English textual criticism, Beowulf, old age, medievalism, and J. R. R. Tolkien.Traxel Oliver M.:
Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world.Fletcher Rachel A.:
Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary.Traxel Oliver M.:
Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world.Porck Thijs:
Thijs Porck is University Lecturer in Medieval English at Leiden University. He has published on Old English textual criticism, Beowulf, old age, medievalism, and J. R. R. Tolkien.Toswell M. J.:
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario.Jolly Karen Louise:
Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.