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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften A Case for Irony in Beowulf: With Particular Reference to Its Epithets: 402 (Europaische Hochschulschriften Reihe 14: Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur)

Name: A Case for Irony in Beowulf: With Particular Reference to Its Epithets: 402 (Europaische Hochschulschriften Reihe 14: Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur)
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This book examines irony in the Old English poem Beowulf. It synthesises an argument that the poetics of Beowulf are fundamentally contrastive. Contrastiveness is a feature of expression that enables the presence of irony, although it does not guarantee it. Using a definition that emphasises contextual rather than absolute readings of irony, this study shows how irony is created in Beowulf by contrastive techniques such as the dichotomy of words and deeds, the use of juxtaposition in its development of characters, and the use of litotes. The author devotes particular attention to the epithets of Beowulf, examined as both an attributive phrase and the concomitant amplification of that phrase through its poetic context. Close readings of the poem's epithets reveal many ironies and many different types of irony. The systematic coherence of those types shows Beowulf in a new light, as a thoroughly ironic poem.

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Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 3039102214
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 December 2003
Listed Since: 23 February 2010

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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften A Case for Irony in Beowulf: With Particular Reference to Its Epithets: 402 (Europaische Hochschulschriften Reihe 14: Angelsachsische Sprache und Literatur)

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