Preaching the Converted : : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / / Samantha Zacher.
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...
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Zacher, Samantha, author. Preaching the Converted : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / Samantha Zacher. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2009 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) English prose literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 Criticism, Textual. Sermons, English (Old) Criticism, Textual. POETRY / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802091581 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688858 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442688858.jpg |
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Zacher, Samantha, Preaching the Converted : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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