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The Interpretation of Old English Poems

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The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a blinkered philological tradition. He suggests ways in which the practical criticism of Old English poetry and poems can be conducted, and provides the means for a student to form his own critical approach. The book is particularly challenging in that it brings literary criticism into a field which has hitherto belonged largely to historians and linguists.

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ISBN: 9781032543079
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Author: Stanley B Greenfield
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 196 pages
Series: Routledge Library Editions. The Anglo-Saxon World
Genres: European history
Social and cultural history
History of religion
Christianity
Archaeology by period / region
General and world history
History and Archaeology