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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1998.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.