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In recent 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 entirely new light on this question by drawing our attention to a hitherto unrecognised and unexplored body of evidence, namely the graphic realisation 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 onto a new plane; the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the way Old English verse has come down to us.
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This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.
In recent 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 entirely new light on this question by drawing our attention to a hitherto unrecognised and unexplored body of evidence, namely the graphic realisation 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 onto a new plane; the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the way Old English verse has come down to us.
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This book throws light on the debate about the 'orality' or 'literacy' of Old English verse, whether it was transmitted orally or written down.
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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!
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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!
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- The Exeter Book by Professor 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 Eleanor J. Gibson on 5 pages
- Old English Syntax (Volume II) by Bruce Mitchell on 5 pages
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- 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
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