04045nam 2200757 450 991045612090332120200520144314.01-282-00986-997866120098601-4426-7805-410.3138/9781442678057(CKB)2420000000004252(OCoLC)244767425(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218845(SSID)ssj0000305005(PQKBManifestationID)11228691(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305005(PQKBWorkID)10285436(PQKB)11211344(CaBNvSL)slc00213163 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254940(MiAaPQ)EBC4671793(DE-B1597)464717(OCoLC)944177453(DE-B1597)9781442678057(Au-PeEL)EBL4671793(CaPaEBR)ebr11257486(OCoLC)958562642(EXLCZ)99242000000000425220160923h19851985 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Old English verse saints' lives a study in direct discourse and the iconography of style /Robert E. BjorkToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1985.©19851 online resource (192 p.) McMaster Old English Studies and TextsIncludes indexes.0-8020-2569-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Old English Words as Deeds and the Struggle towards Light in Guthlac A -- Chapter Two. Saintly Discourse and the Distancing of Evil in Cynewulf's Juliana -- Chapter Three. Judas with a New Voice: Revelatory Dialogue in Cynewulf's Elene -- Chapter Four. The Artist of the Beautiful: Immutable Discourse in Guthlac B -- Chapter Five. Typology and the Structure of Repetition in Andreas -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Lines -- Backmatter Critics have traditionally treated the Old English poems about saints as individual, autonomous works, relating but little to one another except in a broadly generic way. Bjork challenges the traditional view with an examination of the major structural feature that all the poems share: direct discourse.Syntactical and rhetorical analyses of the five poems reveal a consistent use of spech in creating stylistic norms or ideals - stylistic icons - in spiritually perfect figures. In all the poems the speech of the saints in formal, rhetorical, and balanced, the stylistic analogue both of their immutable fith and of the Christ-saint figural connection. The speech of all other characters is measured against this standard; their ability or inability to meet the saintly ideal in language reflects their level of spiritual awareness.The consistency with which these patterns appear sheds new light on the conventions of Old English poetic hagiography.McMaster Old English studies and texts ;4.Christian poetry, English (Old)History and criticismChristian saintsLegendsHistory and criticismChristian hagiographyHistoryTo 1500Christian saints in literatureDiscourse analysis, LiteraryElectronic books.Christian poetry, English (Old)History and criticism.Christian saintsLegendsHistory and criticism.Christian hagiographyHistoryChristian saints in literature.Discourse analysis, Literary.829.1Bjork Robert E.1949-1036778MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456120903321The Old English verse saints' lives2457300UNINA