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11%OFFAlvin A Lee - Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: 'Beowulf' as Metaphor - 9781442613126 - V9781442613126
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Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: 'Beowulf' as Metaphor

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Description for Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: 'Beowulf' as Metaphor paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; CFP; DCF; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Heritage
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442613126
SKU
V9781442613126
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About Alvin A Lee
Alvin A. Lee is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at McMaster University, a research associate at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and general editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye.

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