The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as
possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic
language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary
context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts
with poems and fictions from other times and places. He
demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through
the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of
imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem
might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in
the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee
uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close
reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of
language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and
polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of
Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a
finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with
meanings old and new.
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