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Preaching the Converted : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies /
"The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques com...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2009
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Locating the Vercelli Homilies: Their Place in the Book, and the Book in Its Place
- 2. Reinventing the Past: Originality and the Vercelli Homilies
- 3. Seeing Double: The Repetition of Themes and Text in the Vercelli Book
- 4. 'Where Are They Now?': The Sources and Techniques of Adaptation and Compilation in the Vercelli Book
- 5. 'Body and Soul' of the Vercelli Book: The Heart of the Corpus
- 6. 'For the Sake of Beauty and Utility': The Place of Figurative Language in the Vercelli Homilies
- 7. At a Crossroads: Generic Ambiguity in the Guthlac Narrative of the Vercelli Book
- 8. Conclusion: Rhetorical Models and Modes of Style
- Appendix 1. Contents of the Vercelli Homilies and Relevant Variant Texts
- Appendix 2. Divisions in the Vercelli Book.