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Preaching the Converted : the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies.
Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of The Vercelli Book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- List of Manuscripts Cited According to Scragg's Sigla
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Locating the Vercelli Homilies: Their Place in the Book, and the Book in Its Place
- 2 Reinventing the Past: Originality and the Vercelli Homilies
- 3 Seeing Double: The Repetition of Themes and Text in the Vercelli Book
- 4 'Where Are They Now?': The Sources and Techniques of Adaptation and Compilation in the Vercelli Book
- 5 The 'Body and Soul' of the Vercelli Book: The Heart of the Corpus
- 6 'For the Sake of Beauty and Utility': The Place of Figurative Language in the Vercelli Homilies
- 7 At a Crossroads: Generic Ambiguity in the Guthlac Narrative of the Vercelli Book
- 8 Conclusion: Rhetorical Models and Modes of Style
- Appendix 1: The Contents of the Vercelli Homilies and Relevant Variant Texts
- Appendix 2: Divisions in the Vercelli Book
- Bibliography
- General Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Index of Passages Cited.