The Old English verse saints' lives : a study in direct discourse and the iconography of style /
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 discou...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[1985]
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| Series: | McMaster Old English studies and texts ;
4. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=682286 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE: Old English Words as Deeds and the Struggle towards Light in Guthlac A
- TWO: Saintly Discourse and the Distancing of Evil in Cynewulf's Juliana
- THREE: Judas with a New Voice: Revelatory Dialogue in Cynewulf's Elene
- FOUR: The Artist of the Beautiful: Immutable Discourse in Guthlac B
- FIVE: Typology and the Structure of Repetition in Andreas
- CONCLUSION
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- PQ
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Index of Lines
- A
- B
- E
- G
- J
- PLATES