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Joinings : Compound Words in Old English Literature / Jonathan Davis-Secord.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Anglo-Saxon SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442637399
  • 9781442625259
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 429.2 23
LOC classification:
  • PE161 .D38 2016eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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