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Preaching the converted : the style and rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies /

"The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zacher, Samantha, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009
Colección:Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. '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. Contents of the Vercelli Homilies and Relevant Variant Texts
  • Appendix 2. Divisions in the Vercelli Book.