English 240Y
Old English Language and Literature
Prof. David N. Klausner
This course will be offered in 2005-6, meeting Tuesday 9-11 and Thursday 9-10
in UC 163. Sorry about the early meeting time, but I need an incentive to get
me up in the morning.
Reading List:
Required texts:
Peter Baker
An Introduction to Old English
(Blackwell, Oxford, 2003).
J. C. Pope (ed), R. D. Fulk (rev.)
Eight Old English Poems
(Norton, 2003).
Both these texts are in stock at the Bob Miller Book Room, 180 Bloor St. W.
Most of the poems we will read are also available in single editions with
excellent introductions and
notes from Methuen or Manchester University Press:
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B. Dickens and A. Ross (eds.)
The Dream of the Rood
(London, 1963).
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M. Swanton (ed.)
The Dream of the Rood
(Manchester, 1970).
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K. Malone (ed.)
Deor
(London, 1961).
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T. Dunning and A. Bliss (eds.)
The Wanderer
(London, 1969).
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R. Leslie (ed.)
The Wanderer
(Manchester, 1966).
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D. Scragg (ed.)
The Battle of Maldon
(Manchester, 1981).
You need not buy, but will be expected to read the following:
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Tacitus
Germania
(The preferred translation is that of H. Mattingley, Penguin).
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Beowulf
, in either the translation by Roy Liuzza (Broadview Press, 2000) or that of
Seamus
Heaney (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000). I prefer the Liuzza text and it has
a better selection of additional
material, but the choice is yours. Also acceptable are the prose translations
of William Alfred in
Medieval Epics
(New York, 1963) and E. T. Donaldson (in the Norton Anthology).
and one of the following:
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D. Whitelock
The Beginnings of English Society
(Penguin, 1952).
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P. Hunter Blair
An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
(Cambridge, 1960).
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J. Campbell
The Anglo-Saxons
(Penguin, 1991).
Literary history, criticism, and other useful works:
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Bruce Mitchell
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo Saxon England
(Blackwell, Oxford, 1995). This is
a very useful introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies for its discussion of
backgrounds, material culture, and the literature.
However, the section on the language is merely a simplified version of our base
text, Mitchell and Robinson, and in most
cases only selections from the texts are given.
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M. Godden and M. Lapidge (eds.)
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
(Cambridge, 1991).
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S. B. Greenfield and F. C. Robinson (eds.)
A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature
to the End of 1972
(Toronto, 1980).
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M. Alexander
A History of Old English Literature
(Broadview Press, 2002).
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J. B. Bessinger and S. Kahrl (eds.)
Essential Articles for the Study of Old English Poetry
(Hamden
CT, 1968).
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R. D. Fulk and C. Cain
A History of Old English Literature
(Blackwell, Oxford, 2005).
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S. B. Greenfield and D. Calder
A New Critical History of Old English Literature
(NY, 1986).
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C. L. Wrenn
A Study of Old English Literature
(NY, 1967).
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E. G. Stanley (ed.)
Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature
(London, 1966).
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T. A. Shippey
Old English Verse
(London, 1972).
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D. Hill
An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England
(Toronto, 1981).
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R. Bruce-Mitford
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: A Handbook
(3rd ed., London, 1979).
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D. Campbell, E. John, and P. Wormald
The Anglo-Saxons
(Oxford, 1982).
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D. Pelteret and D. Woods
The Anglo-Saxon Achievement
(Waterloo, 1985).
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H. R. Loyn
Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest
(London, 1962).
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D. Wilson
The Anglo-Saxons
(Penguin, 1971). Archeology.
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L. and J. Laing
Anglo-Saxon England
(London, 1982). Archeology.
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Bede (tr. L. Sherley-Price)
A History of the English Church and People
(Penguin, 1968).
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M. Lapidge and S. Keynes
The Age of Bede
(Penguin, 1986).