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The Construction of Christian Poetry in Old English

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#348309-VC38
Titel	The Construction of Christian Poetry in Old English
Auteur	Gardner, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Southern Illinois University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1975
ISBN10	0809307057
ISBN13	9780809307050
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket,
Samenvatting	Focusing on the works of Cynewulf, the Caedmonic school, and the great Beowulf-poet, John Gardner traces the development of Anglo-Saxon Christian poetic style. This latest contribution to a distinguished new series is a scholar-novelist-poet? s analysis of allegorical modes in a few major poems from England? s great age of allegory, the seventh century to, roughly, the eleventh. What John Gardner is out to understand and describe is not so much the ? meaning? of particular poems? though his study inevitably deals, to some extent, with meaning and offers critical interpretations? but how the various kinds of Anglo-Saxon allegory work, what happens when several completely different kinds of allegory are brought together in one poem (as in Beowulf... (Lees verder)), and what it is that makes the different kinds of allegory not just intellectually but emotionally effective.
Pagina's	147
Conditie	Goed — Edges dust jacket browned; 2 small tears dust jacket repaired.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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