Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems

by Elise Louviot

Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of defiance, etc. Yet Direct Speech, as a stylistic device, has remained largely under-examined and under-theorized in studies of the corpus. As a consequence, many analyses are unduly influenced by anachronistic conceptions of Direct Speech, leading to problematic interpretations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843844346
• ISBN13: 9781843844341
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"