{"product_id":"beowulf-and-the-appositive-style-9780870495311","title":"Beowulf and the Appositive Style","description":"Originally published in 1985, Fred T. Robinson's classic study asserts that the \u003cbr\u003e appositive style of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e helps the poet communicate his Christian vision of pagan \u003cbr\u003e life. By alerting the audience to both the older and the newer meanings of words, the \u003cbr\u003e poet was able to resolve the fundamental tension which pervades his narration of \u003cbr\u003e ancient heroic deeds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robinson describes \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e's major themes and the grammatical and stylistic \u003cbr\u003e aspects of its appositive strategies. He then considers the poet's use of the semantically \u003cbr\u003e stratified vocabulary of Old English poetry to accommodate a partly Christian and \u003cbr\u003e partly pre-Christian perspective on the events being narrated. The analysis draws \u003cbr\u003e attention to the ways in which modern editors and lexicographers have obscured stylistic \u003cbr\u003e aspects of the poem by imposing upon it various modern conventions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Appositional techniques, Robinson shows, serve not only the poet's major themes \u003cbr\u003e but also his narrative purposes. A grasp of the fundamental role played by the appositive \u003cbr\u003e style in Beowulf gives the reader new ways of understanding some of the epic's familiar \u003cbr\u003e passages. The new foreword addresses the reception this book has had and examines \u003cbr\u003e recent scholarship in the ongoing interest in this amazing poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred C. Robinson is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Old English \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705008423186,"sku":"9780870495311","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea1b5ebb-fbe9-4d22-8f7b-dd16f7de37d2.jpg?v=1762336421","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beowulf-and-the-appositive-style-9780870495311","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}