Borrowed objects and the art of poetry : Spolia in old English verse /
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. Old English poetry famously lacks an explicit ars poetica. Thi...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture ;
v. 25. |
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