{"product_id":"gold-hall-and-earth-dragon-alvin-a-lee-9781442613126","title":"Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: 'Beowulf' as Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe aim of \u003cem\u003eGold-Hall and Earth-Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. 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 \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alvin Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442613122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442613126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Alvin Lee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066218508543,"sku":"9781442613126","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e95e9336-7a17-4b5b-81e7-36966a9f4c0b.jpg?v=1685405975","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gold-hall-and-earth-dragon-alvin-a-lee-9781442613126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}