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Beowulf and the Appositive Style
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Beowulf and the Appositive Style Paperback - 2014

by Fred C. Robinson

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Originally published in 1985, Fred T. Robinson's classic study asserts that the
appositive style of Beowulf helps the poet communicate his Christian vision of pagan
life. By alerting the audience to both the older and the newer meanings of words, the
poet was able to resolve the fundamental tension which pervades his narration of
ancient heroic deeds.

Robinson describes Beowulf's major themes and the grammatical and stylistic
aspects of its appositive strategies. He then considers the poet's use of the semantically
stratified vocabulary of Old English poetry to accommodate a partly Christian and
partly pre-Christian perspective on the events being narrated. The analysis draws
attention to the ways in which modern editors and lexicographers have obscured stylistic
aspects of the poem by imposing upon it various modern conventions.

Appositional techniques, Robinson shows, serve not only the poet's major themes
but also his narrative purposes. A grasp of the fundamental role played by the appositive
style in Beowulf gives the reader new ways of understanding some of the epic's familiar
passages. The new foreword addresses the reception this book has had and examines
recent scholarship in the ongoing interest in this amazing poem.

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  • Title Beowulf and the Appositive Style
  • Author Fred C. Robinson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 106
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2014-04-01
  • ISBN 9780870495311 / 0870495313
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.29 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 84011889
  • Dewey Decimal Code 829.3

About the author

Fred C. Robinson is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. He is the author of A Guide to Old English and Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts.

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