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The etiquette of early northern verse /

"This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frank, Roberta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]
Series:Conway lectures in medieval studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What we talk about when we talk about style
  • A guide to excruciatingly correct behavior
  • Completing the circle
  • Roots and rhymes
  • Extra alliteration
  • Saying no
  • Saying less and meaning more
  • Reading reticence in the age of Cnut
  • Dietrologia
  • More than kin
  • To the egress.