Verbal Encounters
Subtitle: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank (Toronto Old English)
Contributors: Antonina Harbus (Editor); Russell Poole (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: December 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802080110
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Old English, ca. 450-1100; History and criticism; Philosophy; Anglo-Saxon; Literary Criticism; Old Norse literature; History & Surveys - Modern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Medieval; English philology
First sentence: 'For a philologist, even a small word can mask a shaft so bottomless that probes dropped into it produce no more than an echo.'