Jordan Zweck

Epistolary Acts

Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media

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Produktbeschreibung

In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity.

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Produktdetails

• Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501006
• ISBN-10: 1487501005
• Artikelnr.: 47975588

Autorenporträt

Jordan Zweck is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message
Chapter One: Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form,
Vocabulary, and Immediacy
Chapter Two: Spreading the Word: the Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and
the Self-Replicating Document
Chapter Three: Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English
Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Mary of Egypt
Chapter Four: Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric’s
Life of Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives
Bibliography