Description: Further DetailsTitle: Helen Waddell ReassessedCondition: NewSubtitle: New ReadingsEAN: 9783034309783ISBN: 9783034309783Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/12/2013Description: The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research with a vivid imagination, her literary history The Wandering Scholars explores the secular joys of the scholares vagantes, an emotional undercurrent traceable throughout the ascetic centuries. Waddell’s translations of Mediaeval Latin Lyrics read as poems in their own right; her novel, Peter Abelard, grounds the tragedy of the famous lovers Heloise and Abelard in the woof and warp of medieval humanism. At the time, the academy acknowledged her learning but deemed her methods insufficiently objective. Modern scholarship has finally caught up with Waddell, and the essays in this volume reassess her achievement from the perspectives of medieval, English, cultural and Irish studies. They investigate this romantic’s modernist insights and demonstrate how her Irish roots were reinscribed in her cross-cultural, transnational humanism. They examine her scepticism regarding conventional historiography and her cutting-edge engagement with medieval theology. They explore the range of her writings, from adaptations of ancient Chinese lyrics through translations from medieval Latin, interacting allusively with cultural ideologies and literary texts. These new readings show how Waddell’s accessible, imaginative, scholarly works continually challenge academic and literary orthodoxies.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CHItem Height: 225mmItem Length: 150mmItem Weight: 500gContributor: Jennifer FitzGerald (Edited by)Author: Jennifer FitzGeraldGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Helen Waddell Reassessed
Title: Helen Waddell Reassessed
Subtitle: New Readings
EAN: 9783034309783
ISBN: 9783034309783
Release Date: 12/12/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Item Height: 225mm
Contributor: Jennifer FitzGerald (Edited by)
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Publication Name: Helen Waddell Reassessed : New Readings
Language: English
Publisher: Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Cultural Heritage, English As a Second Language, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jennifer Fitzgerald
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Biography & Autobiography
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
