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Robinson, Fred Colson was born on September 23, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Emmett Colson and Morwenna Hope (Bennett) Robinson.
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Originally published in 1985, Fred T. Robinson's classic study asserts that the appositive style of Beowulf helps the poet communicate his Christian vision of pagan life. By alerting the audience to both the older and the newer meanings of words, the poet was able to resolve the fundamental tension which pervades his narration of ancient heroic deeds. Robinson describes Beowulf 's major themes and the grammatical and stylistic aspects of its appositive strategies. He then considers the poet's use of the semantically stratified vocabulary of Old English poetry to accommodate a party Christian and partly pre-Christian perspective on the events being narrated. The analysis draws attention to the ways in which modern editors and lexicographers have obscured stylistic aspects of the poem by imposing upon it various modern conventions. Appositional techniques, Robinson shows, serve not only the poet's major themes but also his narrative purposes. A grasp of the fundamental role played by the appositive style in Beowulf gives the reader new ways of understanding some of the epic's familiar passages. The new foreword addresses the reception this book has had and examines recent scholarship in the ongoing interest in this amazing poem.
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(Fred C. Robinson is known throughout the world for some o...)
Fred C. Robinson is known throughout the world for some of the most original and stimulating work on Old English literature and language published in recent times. This book collects thirty seven of his essays and three substantial new articles, on the literary interpretation of Beowulf, the background and value of Ezra Pound's translation of The Seafarer, and an account of the use of Old English in twentieth-century literary composition.The essays range widely in terms of subject and approach. They include literary and textual interpretation and criticism of many of the best-known Old English poems including The Battle of Maldon and Exodus, an account of the historical, religious and cultural background to the writing of Beowulf, three articles on women in Old English literature and four on the significance of names and naming.The book is informed by the author's preoccupation with meaning, context and language and their subtle interactions. Its contents are characterized by readability and scholarship, and by learning and wit.
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Robinson, Fred Colson was born on September 23, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Emmett Colson and Morwenna Hope (Bennett) Robinson.
Bachelor, Birmingham Southern College, 1953. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1961.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, 2010. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1985. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1989.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of North Carolina, 2010.
Instructor, Stanford (California) U., 1960-1961; assistant professor, Stanford (California) U., 1961-1965; associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1967-1971; Professor of English philology, Stanford (California) U., 1971-1972; assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1965-1966; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1966-1967; professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1972-1983; Douglas Tracy Smith professor, Yale University, New Haven, since 1983; chairman medieval studies, Yale University, New Haven, 1975-1978, 80. Visiting professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983. Member public committee Medieval Academy Monographs, Cambridge, 1987-1990.
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Trustee Yale University Library. Associates, New Haven, 1986-1989, 91-95, 97-2000, 03-06. With United States Army, 1954-1956.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Medieval Academy American (president 1983-1984, Haskins medal 1984), British Academy (correspondent, Sir Israel Gollancz prize 1997), Meddeleeue-verenigung van Suidelike Afrika (correspondent). Member Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (foreign member), New England Medieval Conference (president 1982-1983), Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences (president 1980-1985), International Society Anglo-Saxonists (elected honorary), Elizabethan Club (board governors 1986-1988, vice president 1989-1990, president 1990-1992), Manuscript Club (vice president New Haven chapter 1990-1992), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Helen Caroline Wild, June 21, 1959. Children: Lisa Karen, Eric Wild.