Old English Medievalism (EPUB) von Rachel A. Fletcher

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel
1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry
1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell
2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame'sThe Wind in the Willows (1908) - Victoria Condie
3Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton'sWulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo
4 Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in Museums - Fran Allfrey
II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction
5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel
6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth'sThe Wake (2014) - Judy Kendall
7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly
8 Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson
III Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English
9Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler
10 Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old EnglishAlice's Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatović
11 The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual
IV Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom
12 Mitchell & Robinson's Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy - Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany
13 The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele Knappe
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