Cynewulf: Basic Readings

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Robert E. Bjork
Routledge, 2021 M10 28 - 392 pages
Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry. The collection contains important new statements on dates, provenance, and canon by R.D. Fulk and Patrick W. Conner, four influential essays that thoroughly explore Cynewulf's runic signature and poetic style, and major contributions to our understanding of the four signed poems of Cynewulf, Fates of the Apostles, Christ II, Juliana, and Elene. Three essays are devoted to each of these poems, and the essays themselves exemplify a broad range of approaches to this highly elusive Anglo-Saxon poet. The volume complements existing book-length treatments of the subject and will be welcome to scholars and students who need the foundations of Cynewulf scholarship at their fingertips.
 

Contents

Preface of the Series Editors
List of Abbreviations
PATRICK W CONNER
Fates of the Apostles
Christ II
PETER CLEMOES
GEORGE HARDIN BROWN
Juliana
DONALD G BZDYL
Elene
JACKSON J CAMPBELL
Signature Style
Cynewulfs Runes in Juliana and The Fates of the Apostles
e Diction of the Signed Poems of Cynewulf
e Art of Cynewulfs Runic Signatures
Index

LENORE MACGAFFEY ABRAHAM

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