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On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Av John M Hill
E-bok, 2010
1200 kr
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What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry?While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to …
Cultural World in Beowulf
Av John M Hill
Häftad, 1995
442 kr
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world-a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, …
Narrative Pulse of Beowulf
Arrivals and Departures
Av John M Hill
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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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 …
Cultural World in Beowulf
Av John M Hill
E-bok, 1995
506 kr
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world-a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, …
Cultural World in Beowulf
Av John M Hill
E-bok, 1995
562 kr
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world-a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, …
Narrative Pulse of Beowulf
Arrivals and Departures
Av John M Hill
E-bok, 2009
450 kr
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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 …
Narrative Pulse of Beowulf
Arrivals and Departures
Av John M Hill
E-bok, 2009
488 kr
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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 …
Chaucer's Neoplatonism
Varieties of Love, Friendship, and Community
Av John M. Hill
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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Although centrally focused on varieties of friendship and love in Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer’s Neoplatonism includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury Tales. It lays out Chaucer’s Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach, drawn mainly from Book V of the …
Strange Associations
"Now De-Classified: Hitler''s First ''Secret Weapon'', Wwii"
Av John M. Hill
E-bok, 2016
61 kr
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In 1964, I had the opportunity to share several luncheons with the Polish inventor of a chemical that had an unusual configuration and targeted the site of action in the human brain, the limbic system. This chemical, which was stolen by Hitlers men and used as a secret weapon at the start of World …
Strange Associations
"Now de-classified: Hitler's first 'secret weapon', WWII"
Av John M Hill
Häftad, 2016
241 kr
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