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Old English Verse Saints Lives /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bjork, Robert E., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1985]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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