Joinings

Compound Words in Old English Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Medieval, Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book Joinings by Jonathan Davis-Secord, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Jonathan Davis-Secord ISBN: 9781442625266
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jonathan Davis-Secord
ISBN: 9781442625266
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: May 9, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in Beowulf, creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their structural complexity gives rhetorical emphasis to phrases in the homilies of Wulfstan; and how they help to mix quotidian and elevated diction in Cynewulf’s Juliana and the Old English translations of Boethius. His work demonstrates that compound words were the epitome of Anglo-Saxon vernacular verbal art, combining grammar, style, and culture in a manner unlike any other feature of Old English.

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The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, Joinings explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in Beowulf, creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their structural complexity gives rhetorical emphasis to phrases in the homilies of Wulfstan; and how they help to mix quotidian and elevated diction in Cynewulf’s Juliana and the Old English translations of Boethius. His work demonstrates that compound words were the epitome of Anglo-Saxon vernacular verbal art, combining grammar, style, and culture in a manner unlike any other feature of Old English.

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