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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| Format: | Book |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Powerful fragments: Ruin, relics, spoila
- Encyclopedic miniatures: Combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter riddles
- Architecture of the past and future: Transformative potential of plunder in Exodus
- Animated, animating: Bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas
- Zooming out, cutting through: Resistance to incorporation in Judith
- A hoard full of plunder: Paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf
- Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond
- Bibliography
- Index.