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Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham.
This is the first book-length study to consider the works of Osbern Bokenham in the light of the discovery of his long-lost magnum opus, the so-called Abbotsford Legenda Aurea, in 2004. Bokenham is an author who, throughout his oeuvre, never tires of stressing his own marginality, historically (as t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter one. Introduction : identity and community in space and time. Part one. Osbern Bokenham : emerging from the "angle of oblyuyoun" ; part two. The discovery of the Abbotsford manuscript and its implications ; part three. The angelic margins and the inclusiveness of the exemplary : authority, community and identity
- Chapter two. Language : etymology, the vernacular, and the poetic voice. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Etymology, the Trinity and the Legenda Aurea ; part three. Etymology, national identity and the mother tongue in the Mappula Angliae and the lives of native saints ; part four. Natural language and orthodoxy
- Chapter three. Lineage. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Genealogy, gender and nation ; part three. Genealogy, gender and succession ; part four. Gender, fertility and language
- Chapter four. Location. Part one. Introduction ; part two. Sanctity and nation ; part three. Gender, vernacular and nation ; part four. Geographical space, authority and experience ; part five. Translating corpses and Corpora ; part six. Textual spaces : number, form, and the Trinity.