Preaching the Converted : : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies /

Preaching the Converted : : The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies / / Samantha Zacher.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Zacher, Samantha,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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