الژی‌های انگلیسی قدیم: ویرایش انتقادی و مطالعه ژانر

Bringing together some of the most important poetic texts of the Anglo-Saxon period, Anne Klinck presents the poems both as discrete entities and as members of an elegiac group, all inspired by the sense of separation from one's desire that is at the heart of elegiac poetry in Old English. Klinck analyses the poems' manuscript context in the Exeter Book - along with their possible dates and dialectal provenance, and the main critical problems they raise - and presents the texts with detailed textual notes and an apparatus criticus of editorial variants. She then examines the elegiac genre in Old English: its features, origins, and affinities (giving examples of analogous elegies in Latin, Norse, and Early Welsh, with both text and translation). Klinck includes a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary listing all word-forms to be found in the elegies. The nine elegies have all been edited separately between 1933 and 1983. Klinck builds on the extensive previous scholarship in the field and also draws on recently available materials - notably the microfiche Concordances, the first letters of the new Old English Dictionary, and Bruce Mitchell's Old English Syntax - to make new suggestions about problematic words and passages. Going beyond an exploration of the literary potential of individual poems, Klinck examines them as separate manifestations of a common generic impulse: she moves from palaeographical and philological detail to broader literary and cultural considerations and, finally, to a definition of Old English elegy. Annotation The first collected edition of the nine elegies in English, and the first critical edition to include complete facsimiles of the manuscript originals in the Exeter book. Klinck analyzes the poems' manuscript context in the Exeter book, and presents the texts with detailed textual notes and an apparatus criticus of editorial variants. She then examines the elegiac genre in Old English: its features, origins, and affinities. She includes a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary listing all word-forms to be found in the elegies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Plates Introduction PART I: The Poems and the Manuscript PART II: Texts and Textual Notes Presentation of Texts and Apparatus The Wanderer The Seafarer The Riming Poem Deor Wulf and Eadwacer The Wife's Lament Resignation Ic wæs be Sonde (Riddle 60) The Husband's Message The Ruin PART III: The Nature of Elegy in Old English Appendix: Some Analogues Bibliography Glossary and Word Index to the Old English Texts A B C D E F G H I L M N O R S T U W Y High-Frequency Forms and Uses