How the Anglo-Saxons Read their Poems

Style in Old English Poetry, 1987) and punctuation (cf. two papers published in 2006 and 2016) with scholarship on oral tradition and recent research in cognitive psychology, especially eye-movement studies, to improve our understanding of the reception of Old English poems in manuscript form by con...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inMedium Aevum Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 380 - 381
Main Author LOUVIOT, ELISE
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature 01.01.2018
Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
Subjects
Anglo-Saxon period
Bibliographic literature
English literature
Historical text analysis
Literacy
Literary devices
Medieval period
Old English
Oral tradition
Poetry
Psychology
Punctuation
Reading
REVIEWS
Traditions
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Style in Old English Poetry, 1987) and punctuation (cf. two papers published in 2006 and 2016) with scholarship on oral tradition and recent research in cognitive psychology, especially eye-movement studies, to improve our understanding of the reception of Old English poems in manuscript form by contemporary audiences. [...]there is a clear continuity between this book and earlier works by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Visible Song, 1990) and Paul Saenger (Space Between Words, 1997): both are discussed by Donoghue, and Saenger already based much of his analysis on (earlier) eye-movement studies. Donoghue does not deny the importance of oral tradition at the time the four main poetic manuscripts were composed or that it played a crucial role in facilitating reading; on the contrary.
ISSN:0025-8385
2398-1423