Peter Clemoes

Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Radical reinterpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon thought and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1023g
• ISBN-13: 9780521307116
• ISBN-10: 0521307112
• Artikelnr.: 21832621

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I. The Poetry of an Aristocratic Warrior Society: 1. The chronological implications of the bond between kingship in Beowulf and kingship in practice
2. Society's ancient conceptions of active being and narrative living
3. Poetry's tradition of symbolic expression
4. The language of symbolic expression
5. Types of symbolic narrative
6. Basic characteristics of symbolic story
Part II. The Poetry of a Universal Religion: 7. Vernacular poetic narrative in a Christian world
8. Poet, public petitioner and preacher
9. Symbolic language serving the company of Christ
10. Adaptation to a new material morality
11. From social hero to individual sub specie aeternitatis
12. Loyalty as a responsibility of the individual
13. This world as part of God's spiritual dominion
Works cited
Indexes.