For many years there has been lively debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come down to us is primarily the product of oral composition or primarily written, insofar as it is transmitted only in manuscript. The present book throws light on this question by drawing our attention to a largely unexplored body of evidence, namely the graphic realization of Old English verse in the surviving manuscripts - how it is set out spatially, how it is marked up for reading with punctuation of various kinds. Professor O'Keeffe shows that by the late tenth century scribes had apparently ceased to alter the poems which they were transcribing by recourse to residual orality, and had begun to copy verbatim the poetic text before them. The entire orality-literacy debate has been lifted on to a new plane; the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the way Old English verse has come down to us.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Modern readers of Alfred's translation of the De consolatione Philosophiae are often struck by his assimilating into the Old English version his own late ninth-century preoccupations and intellectual pursuits. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
large decorated capital, metrical pointing, pointing practice, formulaic reading, heavy punctuation, scribal literacy, graphic cues, punctus elevatus, orthographic redundancy, memorial transmission, residual orality, transitional literacy, scribe points, terminal punctuation, realized texts, medial point, formulaic systems, medieval literacy, free morphemes, poetic records, prose dialogue, original scribe, oral poem, scribal practice, graphic conventions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Caedmon's Hymn, Exeter Book, Metrical Preface, Bodleian Library, Cotton Tiberius, The Battle of Brunanburh, Vercelli Book, West Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Nowell Codex, Trinity College, Exeter Riddle, Pastoral Care, Laud Misc, Anglo-Saxon England, Modern English, Poetical Dialogues, Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Metres of Boethius, Cathedral Library, Corpus Christi College, New York, The Capture of the Five Boroughs, Cotton Otho New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Modern readers of Alfred's translation of the De consolatione Philosophiae are often struck by his assimilating into the Old English version his own late ninth-century preoccupations and intellectual pursuits. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
large decorated capital, metrical pointing, pointing practice, formulaic reading, heavy punctuation, scribal literacy, graphic cues, punctus elevatus, orthographic redundancy, memorial transmission, residual orality, transitional literacy, scribe points, terminal punctuation, realized texts, medial point, formulaic systems, medieval literacy, free morphemes, poetic records, prose dialogue, original scribe, oral poem, scribal practice, graphic conventions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Caedmon's Hymn, Exeter Book, Metrical Preface, Bodleian Library, Cotton Tiberius, The Battle of Brunanburh, Vercelli Book, West Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Nowell Codex, Trinity College, Exeter Riddle, Pastoral Care, Laud Misc, Anglo-Saxon England, Modern English, Poetical Dialogues, Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Metres of Boethius, Cathedral Library, Corpus Christi College, New York, The Capture of the Five Boroughs, Cotton Otho New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 66
books:
See all 66 books this book cites
26
books
cite this book:
See all 26 books citing this book
- The Exeter Book by George P. Krapp on 9 pages
- Battle of Brunanburh by Alister Campbell on 8 pages
- Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong on 6 pages
- The Psychology Of Reading by James G. Gibson on 5 pages
- Old English Syntax (Volume II) by Bruce Mitchell on 5 pages
See all 66 books this book cites
- The Composition of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Hal Momma in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Peter Clemoes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Mary Swan in Front Matter, and page 80
- The Poetic Art of Aldhelm (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Andy Orchard in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Catherine E. Karkov in Front Matter, and Back Matter
See all 26 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
