Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor / Alvin A. Lee.
Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor / Alvin A. Lee.
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1998.
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N829.3/29
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xi, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
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Pt. I. Modes of Imagining and the Workings of Words. 1. Wunder aefter Wundre: Modes of Imagining. 2. Word O[dh]er Fand: The Inwardness of Kennings. 3. [Th]ry[dh]word Sprecen: The Language of Myth and Metaphor. 4. Ealdgesegena Worn Gemunde: Memory and Identity -- Pt. II. Structure and Meaning. 5. Fyr...
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1998.
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c1998.
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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 fin...
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Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor / Alvin A. Lee.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1998.
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N829.3/29
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74VvWrM68poy
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080204378X
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829.3
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991011989719702626
