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This book explores ideas of community and the relationship of individuals to communities widely evident in Old English poetry. It pays particular attention to the context in which major poetic manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period were received, a time when concerns about community appear to have been of special urgency. The book identifies key features of the audience or readership of Old English poetry in this period, and relates the interests of these groups of people to themes reflected in the poetic texts. Magennis analyses a wide range of poems and examines the imagery on which they draw, concentrating particularly on depictions of hall (including feasting and drinking), stronghold, city and landscape. In a poetry in which communal structures are typically associated with male ideals of warriorship and fellowship, the position and treatment of women is also shown to merit close consideration.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Images of Community in Old English Poetry
• Author: Hugh Magennis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780521495660
• ISBN: 0521495660
• ID: 02032853
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 44 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. October 1996

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