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Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature

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The first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, "Joinings" explores the effect of compounds on style, pace, clarity, and genre in Anglo-Saxon vernacular literature. Jonathan Davis-Secord demonstrates how compounds affect the pacing of passages in "Beowulf", creating slow-motion narrative at moments of significant violence; how their structural complexity gives rhetorical emphasis to phrases in the homilies of Wulfstan; and how they help to mix quotidian and elevated diction in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and the Old English translations of Boethius. His work demonstrates that compound words were the epitome of Anglo-Saxon vernacular verbal art, combining grammar, style, and culture in a manner unlike any other feature of Old Englis

Author(s): Jonathan Davis-Secord
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 20
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 260

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Connecting Grammar, Style, and Culture
2. Compounds as Translation Tools
3. Compound Interest
4. Compound Discourses in the Old English "Boethius" and "Juliana"
5. Controlling Pace in Prose: Wulfstan's Old English Homilies
6. Controlling Pace in Poetry: "Beowulf"
7. Conclusion: Ubi Est Ælfric?
Bibliography 199
Index 235