Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays

By L Carruthers, R Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec

Book Overview

Foreword: Homage to Andr? Cr?pin; L.Carruthers Introduction: Palimpsests and 'Palimpsestuous' Reinscriptions; R.Chai-Elsholz PART I: PERMANENCE AND IMPERMANENCE OF WRITING ON THE PAGE An Anglo-Saxon Palimpsest from Fleury: Orl?ans, Biblioth?que Municipale MS 342 (290); A.Papahagi Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools and Techniques; P.Stokes Some Psalter Glosses in Their Immediate Context; J.Roberts The Palimpsest and Old English Homiletic Composition; P.E.Szarmach 'Ic Beda'...'Cw ? Beda': Reinscribing Bede in the Old English Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum; S.Rowley Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England; F.Bourgne PART II: IMPERMANENCE AND ACCUMULATION IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance; L. Carruthers Palimpsestic Philomela: Reinscription in Chaucer's Legend of Philomela; G.Aloni The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin; C.Vial Enquiries into the Textual History of the Seventeenth-Century Sir Lambewell (British Library, Additional 27897); C.St?vanovitch Elucidations: Bringing to Light the Aesthetic Underwriting of the Mati?re de Bretagne in John Boorman's Excalibur; J-M.Elsholz

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349286443
• ISBN13: 9781349286447
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"