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Author

Lee, Alvin A., 1930-

Title Gold-Hall and earth-dragon : Beowulf as metaphor / Alvin A. Lee.

Imprint

Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c1998.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	829.3 B45Dl	---	Available

Description	xi, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Pt. 1. Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder aefter wundre : modes of imagining -- Word other fand : the inwardness of kennings -- THrythword sprecen : the language of myth and metaphor -- Ealdgesegena worn gemunde : memory and identity -- pt. 2. Structure and meaning. Fyr on flode : war against the creation -- Swa sceal man don : Germanic tales and Christian myths -- Heold on heahgesceap : the structure of the poem, the heroic theme, and the shape of the hero's life -- Nu is wilgeofa ... deathbedde faest : tragedy and the limits of heroism.
Subject	Beowulf.
	Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
	English language -- Old English, approximately 450-1100 -- Lexicology.
	English language -- Old English, approximately 450-1100 -- Style.
	Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
	Monsters in literature.
	Dragons in literature.
	Heroes in literature.
	Rhetoric, Medieval.
	Metaphor.
	Scandinavia -- In literature.
ISBN	080204378X