{"product_id":"old-english-verse-saints-lives","title":"Old English Verse Saints Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritics have traditionally treated the Old English poems about saints as individual, autonomous works, relating but little to one another except in a broadly generic way. Bjork challenges the traditional view with an examination of the major structural feature that all the poems share: direct discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSyntactical and rhetorical analyses of the five poems reveal a consistent use of spech in creating stylistic norms or ideals - stylistic icons - in spiritually perfect figures. In all the poems the speech of the saints in formal, rhetorical, and balanced, the stylistic analogue both of their immutable fith and of the Christ-saint figural connection. The speech of all other characters is measured against this standard; their ability or inability to meet the saintly ideal in language reflects their level of spiritual awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe consistency with which these patterns appear sheds new light on the conventions of Old English poetic hagiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Robert E. Bjork","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575861313718,"sku":"9781442678057","price":44.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442678057_027f0d7e-03c2-4f1c-970d-043ca3b795d3.jpg?v=1727467131","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/old-english-verse-saints-lives","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}