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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Cynewulf"”.
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Religious propaganda in selected Anglo-Saxton literature
… English texts, from the canons of Aelfric and Cynewulf, presents the argument that the primary purpose of the Saints' Lives in question is that of instruments of persuasion. After a description of the rites of Anglo-Saxon paganism, an attempt is made to outline the manner in which the Christian …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… missionary saints, the Old English poetry of Cynewulf, and the anonymous poem Andreas. This study demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the experiences and the authority of the apostles to fashion Christian identities for members of the emerging English church in the seventh and …
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A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry
… Germanic code. A study of some poems from the Cynewulf canon shows that the poets understood Christian heroism to mean more than brave battling for the cause of good; in essence, it is complete submission to the will of God.
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… raids (c. 1002-1023), verse saints’ lives by Cynewulf, the anonymous poems Andreas and Guthlac A, and the Old English biblical poetry of the Junius Manuscript (Genesis A, Genesis B, and Christ and Satan). This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors appropriated the fall of the rebel …
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Gender and religion in the Phoenix
… critical works, with the poem being ascribed to Cynewulf by some critics based on the lexis. Many have objected to this theory, therefore this thesis will view the poem as a work by an unknown author; however, The Phoenix is still the work of a writer who had comparable skills and rhetorical …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
… by using indirect speech; in contrast, Cynewulf, in Juliana, presents a less intrusive narrator who allows the direct speech of the demon to dominate nearly half of the poem, but controls him by limiting his agency (his ability to act directly within the human realm). In every case, the …
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An analysis of Cynewulf's Juliana
<p>Cynewulf’s <i>Juliana</i> has aroused little critical attention and virtually no systematic study of its rhetorical design. The <i>Elene</i>, on the other hand, has become accepted as a poem of some importance in Old English studies. Although both are signed poems of Cynewulf, some scholars …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… the dead in the “book of life”; Chapter 2 reads Cynewulf’s runic signature as a figure of his decomposing and sinful body, which is made whole by the reader through reconstituting his name and praying for his salvation; Chapter 3 expands on the notion of the textualized body and argues that the …