200 Pages
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Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
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Routledge
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The Interpretation of Old English Poems (1972) is a challenging approach in the critical appreciation of Old English poems. Professor Greenfield argues in particular against two inhibiting orientations in criticism of Anglo-Saxon poetry: an insensitive and too-narrowly defined historicism, and a blinkered philological tradition. He suggests ways in which the practical criticism of Old English... Read more
1. Towards a Critical Framework 2. Expectations and Implications in Diction and Formula 3. The Uses of Variation 4. The Play of Sound and Sense 5. Verse Form, Syntax and Meaning 6. Generic Expectations and the Quest for Allegory
Biography
Stanley B. Greenfield
