Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style by Wine, Joseph

Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820419367)

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Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style by Wine, Joseph

Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style

$60.95
Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style by Wine, Joseph

Figurative Language in Cynewulf: Defining Aspects of a Poetic Style

$60.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Joseph Wine
ISBN-10: 0820419362
ISBN-13: 9780820419367
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
By Joseph Wine
By Joseph Wine
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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.

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