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Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor /

The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth -Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other tim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Alvin A., 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder æfter wundre: Modes of imagining ; Word oðer fand: The inwardness of kennings ; Þryðword sprecen: The language of myth and metaphor ; Ealdgesegena worn gemunde: Memory and identity. Structure and meaning. Fyr on flode: War against the creation ; Swa sceal man don: Germanic tales and Christian myths ; Heold on heahgesceap: The structure of the poem, the heroic theme, and the shape of the hero's life ; Nu is wilgeofa ... deaðbedde fæst: Tragedy and the limits of heroism.