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Preaching the Converted : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies
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- Summary
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Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of The Vercelli Book?s prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse.
Details
- Creator
- Samantha Zacher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9781442688858, 1442688858
- OCLC
- on1013949180
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Manuscripts Cited According to Scragg's Sigla -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Locating the Vercelli Homilies: Their Place in the Book, and the Book in Its Place -- 2. Reinventing the Past: Originality and the Vercelli Homilies -- 3. Seeing Double: The Repetition of Themes and Text in the Vercelli Book -- 4. 'Where Are They Now?': The Sources and Techniques of Adaptation and Compilation in the Vercelli Book -- 5. The 'Body and Soul' of the Vercelli Book: The Heart of the Corpus -- 6. 'For the Sake of Beauty and Utility': The Place of Figurative Language in the Vercelli Homilies -- 7. At a Crossroads: Generic Ambiguity in the Guthlac Narrative of the Vercelli Book -- 8. Conclusion: Rhetorical Models and Modes of Style -- Appendix 1: The Contents of the Vercelli Homilies and Relevant Variant Texts -- Appendix 2: Divisions in the Vercelli Book -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Passages Cited -- Backmatter