Performance in Beowulf and other Old English poems /
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the origi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2022.
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| Series: | Anglo-Saxon studies ;
45. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Realising the intangible
- Instruments of the poet : exploiting the Old English lexis
- Multiformity and the orality of associative, architectonic poetics
- Providence and pleasure : performance as symbol
- Storytelling in Beowulf and meta-storytelling in Andreas
- Wisdom and power : philosophies of performance
- Theme songs : an English tradition of performance?
- The lure of the lyre : interpretation, reenactment and the corpus
- Conclusion: 'Poetic performance'.