Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
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- Author: Peter Clemoes, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: March 2011
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Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this fresh appreciation of Old English poetry, with a radically new interpretation that relates the poetry to the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking, and to the structures of its society. He proposes a dynamic principle of Old English poetry, very different from the common notion of formulas slotted into poems for stylistic variation. Carefully thought out and elegantly written, this book is also accessible to students: its numerous quotations are accompanied by modern English translations.
Read more- Alternative interpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon society
- Distinguished author; the book will attract much attention in the field
- Accessible to students as well as scholars, though they will probably consult it in libraries
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"Clemoes makes a provocative argument for the cultural power of story in Old English history....his book deserves a prominent place in graduate libraries, if only for its exhaustive treatment of most Old English poetry and much Old English prose." Choice
See more reviews"The intermittent discussion in chapters 2-6 of the ways a noun-heavy language creates rich depictions of action is philologically rich and convincing. Even readers not willing to accept as symbols all the words Clemoes wants us to read symbolically will find the discussion of the words themselves, made easily accessible through Index II 'A representative selection of the symbols and word pairs cited in discussion,' richly nuanced and enlightening. The sheer volume of information about Old English language and the poetry makes the book challenging and valuable, a fitting final work of a scholar and critic 'snottor on mode." Phyllis Rugg Brown, Bryn Mawr
"...Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry is...a book that readers may open with profit. it should be read...as a sequence of frequently illuminating observations on the whole range of Old English literature." Robert E. Bjork, Speculum
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- Date Published: March 2011
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- isbn: 9780511870477
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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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
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