Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
ISBN-10
1526179148
ISBN-13
9781526179142
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2024
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
256 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia – creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .
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. This book argues that attention to particularly charged moments within texts – especially those concerned with translation, transformation and the layering of various pasts – yields a previously unrecognised means for theorising Anglo-Saxon poetic creativity. Borrowed objects and the art of poetry works at the intersections of materiality and poetics, balancing insights from thing theory and related approaches with close readings of passages from Old English texts. -- .
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