Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon : 'Beowulf' as Metaphor /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Alvin A., 1930-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Beowulf
Beowulf.
Beowulf (anoniem)
Metapher
Bildersprache
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Monsters in literature.
Metaphor.
Literature.
Heroes in literature.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
English language > Old English > Style.
English language > Old English > Lexicology.
Dragons in literature.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
metaphor.
Metaphore.
Rhetorique medievale.
Heros dans la litterature.
Dragons dans la litterature.
Monstres dans la litterature.
Civilisation anglo-saxonne.
Anglais (Langue) > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Lexicologie.
Poesie epique anglaise (vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Metaphor
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Style.
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Lexicology.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > History and criticism.
Scandinavia.
Scandinavia > In literature.
Livres numeriques.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
e-books.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder aefter wundre: Modes of imagining ; Word oer fand: The inwardness of kennings ; Þryword 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 ... deabedde faest: Tragedy and the limits of heroism.

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