1st Edition

The Cynewulf Reader

Edited By Robert E. Bjork Copyright 2001
368 Pages 18 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages 18 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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.

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.

Biography

Robert E. Bjork