TY  - GEN
T1  - The Old English verse saints' lives : a study in direct discourse and the iconography of style
T2  - McMaster Old English studies and texts ;
A1  - Bjork, Robert E., 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 1985
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn244767425
AB  - Critics have traditionally treated the Old English poems about saints as individual, autonomous works, relating but little to one another except in a broadly generic way. Bjork challenges the traditional view with an examination of the major structural feature that all the poems share: direct discourse. Syntactical and rhetorical analyses of the five poems reveal a consistent use of spech in creating stylistic norms or ideals - stylistic icons - in spiritually perfect figures. In all the poems the speech of the saints in formal, rhetorical, and balanced, the stylistic analogue both of their immutable fith and of the Christ-saint figural connection. The speech of all other characters is measured against this standard; their ability or inability to meet the saintly ideal in language reflects their level of spiritual awareness. The consistency with which these patterns appear sheds new light on the conventions of Old English poetic hagiography.
OP  - 180
CN  - PR203 .B56 1985eb
SN  - 9781442678057
SN  - 1442678054
SN  - 9780802034076
SN  - 0802034071
SN  - 9780802025692
SN  - 0802025692
KW  - Kölner Künstlervereinigung Stil
KW  - English poetry : Old English, ca. 450-1100 : History and criticism.
KW  - Direct discourse in literature.
KW  - Hagiography.
KW  - Saints.
KW  - Poésie anglaise : ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Discours direct dans la littérature.
KW  - Hagiographie.
KW  - hagiographies (literary genre)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Direct discourse in literature
KW  - English poetry : Old English
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Lyrik
KW  - Heiligenvita
KW  - Direkte Rede
KW  - Verserzählung
KW  - Legende
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Stil
KW  - Geschichte (600-1100)
KW  - Altenglisch.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 450-1100
KW  - Poetry in Old English - Critical studies
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -