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The Textuality of Old English Poetry

By: Carol Braun Pasternack

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The Textuality of Old English Poetry

By: Carol Braun Pasternack

This study constructs a reading of Old English poetry which takes up issues in poststructuralist theory, including intertextuality, work versus text and the author. The modern reader knows this literature as a discrete number of poems, set up and printed in units punctuated as modern sentences and with titles inserted by modern editors. Carol Braun Pasternack offers an alternative approach which takes into account the format of the verse as it exists in the manuscripts, using the term 'inscribed' to define texts which are situated between oral inheritance and print. In a detailed examination of texts throughout the canon she explores the ways in which readers construct poems in the process of reading and in addition she extends her analysis to the question of authorship, arguing that the texts do not imply an author but rather imply tradition as the source of their authority.

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0521465494

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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

By: Sharon A. Farmer,Carol Braun Pasternack

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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

By: Sharon A. Farmer,Carol Braun Pasternack

Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender -- in the Middle Ages no less than now -- intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval identities emerged through shifting paradigms -- that fluidity, conflict, and contingency characterized not only gender, but also sexuality, social status, and religion. This view emerges through essays that delve into a wide variety of cultures and draw on a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies consider gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic areas of the medieval world.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816638934

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The Textuality of Old English Poetry

The Textuality of Old English Poetry

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The Textuality of Old English Poetry

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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

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