Transforming Early English: The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots

ISBN-13: 9781108420389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 308 str.

Jeremy J. Smith

Opis

Considers how medieval English and Scots texts were re-worked in later centuries, and the implications for philological theory and practice.

Recenzje

'The questions that the book attempts to answer … are … extremely relevant, as any answers will have immediate and crucial import on the field of linguistics in general.' Marcin Krygier, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

Spis treści

Prologue. Snatched from the fire: the case of Thomas Percy; 1. On historical pragmatics; 2. Inventing the Anglo-Saxons; 3. 'Witnesses preordained by God': the reception of Middle English religious prose; 4. The great tradition: Langland, Gower, Chaucer; 5. Forging the nation: reworking older Scottish literature; 6. On textual transformations: Walter Scott and beyond.