
Figurative Language in Cynewulf
Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style
Joseph Wine(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 1. November 1993
Book
Hardback
XI, 154 pages
978-0-8204-1936-7 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
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Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-1936-7 (9780820419367)
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The Author: Joseph D. Wine received his B.A. from the Ohio State University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He publishes both in Old English Poetry and computing in the Humanities and is currently assistant professor of English at Augustana College (Illinois) where he teaches medieval languages and literature.