Title Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor / Alvin A. Lee

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource Contents Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder æfter wundre: Modes of imagining ; Word oðer fand: The inwardness of kennings ; Þryðword sprecen: The language of myth and metaphor ; Ealdgesegena worn gemunde: Memory and identity. Structure and meaning. Fyr on flode: War against the creation ; Swa sceal man don: Germanic tales and Christian myths ; Heold on heahgesceap: The structure of the poem, the heroic theme, and the shape of the hero's life ; Nu is wilgeofa ... deaðbedde fæst: Tragedy and the limits of heroism Summary The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth -Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Beowulf Beowulf fast Beowulf gnd Subject Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Lexicology English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Style Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. Monsters in literature. Dragons in literature. Heroes in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. Metaphor. Metaphor metaphor. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon Dragons in literature English language -- Old English -- Lexicology English language -- Old English -- Style Epic poetry, English (Old) Heroes in literature Literature Metaphor Monsters in literature Rhetoric, Medieval Bildersprache Metapher Beowulf (anoniem) SUBJECT Scandinavia -- In literature Subject Scandinavia Genre/Form Electronic books e-books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Livres numériques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442675407 1442675403 1282028758 9781282028753

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