Literary speech acts of the Medieval North : essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey / editors, Eric Shane Bryan, Alexander Vaughan Ames.
"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...
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| Other title: | Essays inspired by the works of Thomas A. Shippey. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tempe, Arizona :
Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
2020.
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| Series: | Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ;
v. 552. |
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Table of 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.