Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon write by Alvin A. Lee. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf 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 Beowulf 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.
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium write by Christopher Vaccaro. This book was released on 2013-08-29. The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist, foucauldian, patristic and queer hermeneutics. The book is organized into categories specific to transformation, spirit versus body, discourse, and source material. More than one essay focuses on female bodies and on the monstrous or evil body. While Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is central to most analyses, authors also cover The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and material in The History of Middle-earth.
Apples and Oranges
Apples and Oranges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apples and Oranges write by Bruce Lincoln. This book was released on 2018-08-23. Apples and Oranges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished scholar of religion Bruce Lincoln argues in Apples and Oranges for a comparatism of a more modest sort. Lincoln presents critiques of recent attempts at grand comparison, and enlists numerous theoretical examples of how a more modest, cautious, and discriminating form of comparison might work and what it can accomplish. He does this through studies of shamans, werewolves, human sacrifices, apocalyptic prophecies, sacred kings, and surveys of materials as diverse and wide-ranging as Beowulf, Herodotus’s account of the Scythians, the Native American Ghost Dance, and the Spanish Civil War. Ultimately, Lincoln argues that concentrating one's focus on a relatively small number of items that the researcher can compare closely, offering equal attention to relations of similarity and difference, not only grants dignity to all parties considered, it yields more reliable and more interesting—if less grandiose—results. Giving equal attention to the social, historical, and political contexts and subtexts of religious and literary texts also allows scholars not just to assess their content, but also to understand the forces, problems, and circumstances that motivated and shaped them.
Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 63
Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 63 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 63 write by George Hinge. This book was released on 2013-07-30. Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 63 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Classica et Mediaevalia is an international, peer re¬viewed journal covering the field of the Greek and Latin languages and literature from classical antiq¬uity until the late Middle Ages as well as the Gre¬co-Roman history and traditions as manifested in the general history, history of law, history of philos-ophy and ecclesiastic history. Articles are published mainly in English, but also in French and German. The present issue includes chapters on divination as a convention of war in Classical Greece; pornographic allusions in Catullus; Sophistic oratory and styles in Roman Asia Minor; suspense and surprise in Achilles Tatius’s Leucippe and Clitophon; narrative time and mythological tale-types focusing on Beowulf andOdysseus; and Petrarch’s reading of Cicero’s letters, among others..
Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature
Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature write by Osamu Imahayashi. This book was released on 2010. Aspects of the History of English Language and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first international conference was held at Chiba University in 1-3 September 2005, the second one at Nagoya University in 7-9 September 2007, and the third one at Hiroshima University in 28-30 August 2009"--P. [v].
