Book by Zacher Samantha
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Reseña del editor:
The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse. The study argues that the dazzling textual complexity of these homilies rivals the most accomplished examples of Old English poetry. Highlighting the use of word play, verbal and structural repetition, elaborate catalogues, and figurative language, Samantha Zacher's study of the Vercelli Book fills a gap in the history of English preaching by foregrounding the significance of these prose homilies as an intermediary form. Also analyzing the Latin and vernacular sources behind the Vercelli texts to reveal the theological and formal interests informing the collection as a whole, Preaching the Converted is a rigorous examination of Old English homiletic rhetoric and poetics.
Biografía del autor:
Samantha Zacher is a professor of English and medieval studies at Cornell University.
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- EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press
- Año de publicación2009
- ISBN 10 080209158X
- ISBN 13 9780802091581
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas320