TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis-Secord,Jonathan
TI  - Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature 
T2  - Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
SN  - 9781442637399
AV  - PE161 .D38 2016eb
U1  - 429.2 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - English language
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - Compound words
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; 1. Connecting Grammar, Style, and Culture --; 2. Compounds as Translation Tools --; 3. Compound Interest --; 4. Compound Discourses in the Old English Boethius and Juliana --; 5. Controlling Pace in Prose: Wulfstan’s Old English Homilies --; 6. Controlling Pace in Poetry: Beowulf --; 7. Conclusion: Ubi Est Ælfric? --; Bibliography --; Index --; Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; restricted access
N2  - The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in Beowulf, creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their structural complexity gives rhetorical emphasis to phrases in the homilies of Wulfstan; and how they help to mix "idian and elevated diction in Cynewulf’s Juliana and the Old English translations of Boethius. His work demonstrates that compound words were the epitome of Anglo-Saxon vernacular verbal art, combining grammar, style, and culture in a manner unlike any other feature of Old English
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442625259
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