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Sanctity in the North

Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia

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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2008

With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia. For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated...
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Egil, the Viking Poet

New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'

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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
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Narrative Pulse of Beowulf

Arrivals and Departures

by John M Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009

One of the most consistent critiques levelled against Beowulf is that it lacks a steady narrative advance and that its numerous digressions tend to complicate if not halt the poem's movement. As those passages often look backward or far ahead in narrative time, they seem to transform the poem into...
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Weaving Words and Binding Bodies

The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature

by Megan Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016

References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts. Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first...
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Verse and Virtuosity

The Adaptation of Latin Rhetoric in Old English Poetry

by Janie Steen
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008

While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric. Verse and Virtuosity demonstrates how Old English poets imitated and adapted the methods of Latin literature, and, in particular, the...
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Unsettling Partition

Literature, Gender, Memory

by Jill Didur
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006

The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan. Diverse...
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by Donguk Kim
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam...
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The Canadian Horror Film

Terror of the Soul

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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

From the cheaply made “tax-shelter” films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary “eco-horror,” Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and André Loiselle rectify that situation in The Canadian Horror Film with a series of thought-provoking...
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by Darren Wershler
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2010

Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else...
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by Alice Vo Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

This short book of poems will resonate with anyone who has recently lost a loved one.This book can inspire those who are grieving to express their own emotions in creative writing or simply be an outlet to help vent emotions for those who are not of the writing bent.Subject matter includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The late tenth-century Vercelli Book (Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII) contains one of the earliest surviving collections of homilies and poetry in the English language. The manuscript's combination of poetry and homiletic prose has generated intense scholarly debate, and there is no consensus...
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Pride and Prodigies

Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript

by Andy Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003

Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008

Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973

The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth. Each contributor came from a different institution, and Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand...
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