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Literary speech acts of the Medieval North : essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey

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Literary speech acts of the Medieval North : essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey / editors, Eric Shane Bryan, Alexander Vaughan Ames.

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Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2020.
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Description

xvii, 265 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This volume brings together examinations of pragmatic meaning and proverbs of the Medieval North. Pragmatic meaning, which relies upon cultural and interpersonal context to go beyond the simple semantic and grammatical meaning of an utterance, has a fundamental connection with proverbs, which also communicate a deeper meaning than what is actually said. Essays in this volume explore this connection by examining the language of generosity, conversion, friendship, debate, dragon proverbs, and saints' lives. These essays are inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey, who has been a pioneer in the study of wisdom poetry and pragmatics in medieval literature."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; Volume 552

Uniform Title

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 552.

Alternative Title

Essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-265).

Contents

Foreword: an awareness of immanence / Tom Shippey -- Preface / Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames -- Acknowledgments / Eric Shane Bryan and Alexander Vaughan Ames -- part 1. Proverbial speech acts. The eddic wisdom of Hareiðarr the Fool: paroemial cognitive patterning in an Old Icelandic Þáttr / Richard L. Harris -- Beowulf's Bane, Fáfnir, and the Firedrake of Erebor: proverbial dragons and the implicatures of pragmatic discourse / Jonathan Evans -- Examining The Proverbs of Hendyng for the essentials: its meaning, authorship, and readership / Graham P. Johnson -- The wisdom of friendship in Hávamál / Michael Nagy -- Competitive cooperation in Old and Middle English debate poetry: Solomon and Saturn II and Winner and waster / Alexander Vaughan Ames -- part 2. Pragmatic speech acts. Don't kill the messenger: felicity conditions in Old Norse conversion narratives / Eric Shane Bryan -- Repetition, class, and the nameless speakers of Beowulf / Michael R. Kightley -- Praising and appraising heroic deeds: generosity as surplus giving in Beowulf / Scott Gwara -- The fall of the angels as apotropaic weapon in Cynewulf's saints' lives / Jill M. Fitzgerald -- "Hwæt!": discourse markers and orality in Beowulf / Toby R. Beeny -- Teaching good manners: civil discourse patterns in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / A. Keith Kelly -- Bibliography.

Call Number

JFE 21-2969

ISBN

9780866986106
0866986103

OCLC

1190755085

Title

Literary speech acts of the Medieval North : essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey / editors, Eric Shane Bryan, Alexander Vaughan Ames.

Publisher

Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2020.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ; Volume 552

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 552.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-265).

Chronological Term

450-1500

Added Author

Bryan, Eric Shane, editor.

Ames, Alexander Vaughan, 1972- editor.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2969

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