| Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style Contributor(s): Wine, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820419362 ISBN-13: 9780820419367 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $57.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 829.4 |
| LCCN: 92028714 |
| Series: Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literature |
| Physical Information: 154 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book attempts to define the development of a unique style in the Old English poetic corpus. The emergence of Latin as a language of instruction and as a literary model for practicing writers changed the poetic landscape in ways sometimes obvious but sometimes rather complex and subtle. Professor Wine shows in this book how, for Cynewulf at least, style was effected as an integration of Latin rhetoric with the native germanic poetic techniques. This poet provides an interesting exemplar for the ways in which the clashing of two cultures - one Latin and literate, the other germanic and oral - could create a new poetic. |