The Cynewulf Reader

by Bjork,Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780415937542
• ISBN10: 041593754X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-06-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Cynewulf Readeris a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work. Well-regarded medievalists explore Cynewulf's runic signature and poetic style and the problems incurred in attempting to locate and appreciate the genius of this fascinating poet.

Author Biography

Robert Bjork is Professor of English at Arizona State University and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface of the General Editors	ix
List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface to the Paperback Edition	xiv
Introduction	xv
List of Abbreviations	xxv
I. Poet, Canon, Date
Cynewulf: Canon, Dialect, and Date	3	(20)
R. D. Fulk
On Dating Cynewulf	23	(34)
Patrick W. Conner
II. Fates of the Apostles
Form and Meaning in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles	57	(10)
James L. Boren
The Fates of the Apostles: Imagery, Structure, and Meaning	67	(12)
Constance B. Hieatt
Cynewulf's Traditions about the Apostles in The Fates of the Apostles	79	(16)
J. E. Cross
III. Christ II
Man's Imitation of the Ascension: The Unity of Christ II	95	(14)
Oliver J. H. Grosz
Cynewulf's Image of the Ascension	109	(24)
Peter Clemoes
The Descent-Ascent Motif in Christ II of Cynewulf	133	(14)
George Hardin Brown
IV. Juliana
Figural Narrative in Cynewulf's Juliana	147	(24)
Joseph Wittig
Cynewulf's Juliana: A Case at Law	171	(22)
Lenore MacGaffey Abraham
Juliana: Cynewulf's Dispeller of Delusion	193	(14)
Donald G. Bzdyl
V. Elene
Sapiential Structure and Figural Narrative in the Old English Elene	207	(22)
Thomas D. Hill
Cynewulf's Multiple Revelations	229	(22)
Jackson J. Campbell
Evangelicism as the Informing Principle of Cynewulf's Elene	251	(30)
Catharine A. Regan
VI. Signature, Style
Cynewulf's Runes in Christ II and Elene	281	(12)
Ralph W. V. Elliott
Cynewulf's Runes in Juliana and The Fates of the Apostles	293	(16)
Ralph W. V. Elliott
The Diction of the Signed Poems of Cynewulf	309	(14)
Robert E. Diamond
The Art of Cynewulf's Runic Signatures	323	(24)
Dolores Warwick Frese
Index	347