{"product_id":"9781442625266","title":"Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive study of the use of compound words in Old English poetry, homilies, and philosophy, \u003cem\u003eJoinings\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eJuliana\u003c\/em\u003e 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 English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140180459760,"sku":"9781442625266","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442625266_p0.jpg?v=1763809887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442625266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}