Joinings - Compound Words in Old English Literature

Informationen zum Autor By Jonathan Davis-Secord Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: 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?

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Davis-Secord
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781442637399
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3739-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies