The Cynewulf Reader

by Robert E. Bjork (Editor)

Overview

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138440081
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2020
Series:	Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface of the General Editors — List of Illustrations — Acknowledgments — Preface to the Paperback Edition — Introduction — List of Abbreviations — I. Poet, Canon, Date — Cynewulf: Canon, Dialect, and Date /R. D. Fulk — On Dating Cynewulf Patrick W. Conner — II. Fates of the Apostles — Form and Meaning in Cynewulf’s Fates of the Apostles James L. Boren — The Fates of the Apostles: Imagery, Structure, and Meaning Constance B. Hieatt — Cynewulf’s Traditions about the Apostles in The Fates of the Apostles /J. E. Cross — III. Christ II — Man’s Imitation of the Ascension: The Unity of Christ II Oliver J. H. Grosz — Cynewulf’s Image of the Ascension Peter Clemoes — The Descent-Ascent Motif in Christ II of Cynewulf George Hardin Brown — IV. Juliana — Figural Narrative in Cynewulf’s Juliana Joseph Wittig — Cynewulf’s Juliana: A Case at Law Lenore MacGaffey Abraham — Juliana: Cynewulf’s Dispeller of Delusion Donald G. Bzdyl — V. Elene — Sapiential Structure and Figural Narrative in the Old English Elene Thomas D. Hill — Cynewulf’s Multiple Revelations Jackson J. Campbell — Evangelicism as the Informing Principle of Cynewulf’s Elene Catharine A. Regan — VI. Signature, Style — Cynewulf’s Runes in Christ II and Elene Ralph W. V. Elliott — Cynewulf’s Runes in Juliana and The Fates of the Apostles Ralph W. V. Elliott — The Diction of the Signed Poems of Cynewulf Robert E. Diamond — The Art of Cynewulf’s Runic Signatures Dolores Warwick Frese — Index.