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Preaching the converted : the style and rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / Samantha Zacher.
LIBRA PR1495 .Z33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zacher, Samantha, 1973-
- Series:
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 1.
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Criticism, Textual.
- English prose literature.
- Sermons, English (Old)--Criticism, Textual.
- Sermons, English (Old).
- Criticism, Textual.
- English prose literature--Old English.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 Locating the Vercelli Homilies: Their Place in the Book, and the Book in Its Place 3
- 2 Reinventing the Past: Originality and the Vercelli Homilies 30
- 3 Seeing Double: The Repetition of Themes and Text in the Vercelli Book 63
- 4 'Where Are They Now?': The Sources and Techniques of Adaptation and Compilation in the Vercelli Book 106
- 5 The 'Body and Soul' of the Vercelli Book: The Heart of the Corpus 140
- 6 'For the Sake of Beauty and Utility': The Place of Figurative Language in the Vercelli Homilies 179
- 7 At a Crossroads: Generic Ambiguity in the Guthlac Narrative of the Vercelli Book 225
- 8 Conclusion: Rhetorical Models and Modes of Style 269.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802091581
- 080209158X
- OCLC:
- 282530943
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