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Author Major, Tristan, author.

Title Undoing Babel : the Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon literature / Tristan Major
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Genesis 10â#x80;#x93;11; Introduction; 1 Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity; 2 Latin Christian Antiquity; 3 The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury; 4 Bede and Alcuin; 5 Alfred the Great and the Literature of His Reign; 6 The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries; 7 The Biblical Poems of Junius 11; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 2, 2018)
Subject Babel, Tower of, in literature.
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Babel, Tower of, in literature
English literature -- Old English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487511265
1487511264
9781487511272
1487511272