"The Riddle of Creation" - Metaphor Structures in Old English Poetry

The Creation is one of the most important themes in Old English poetry. The Riddle of Creation approaches the Creation through its metaphors, focussing especially on images relating to architecture and the body. These are shown to form organized structures extending throughout the poetry, structures which are ironically inverted in the Exeter Book riddles. Overall, these metaphors reveal not only Anglo-Saxon notions about the created world, but fundamental concepts about the nature of poetic creation as well.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

The Author: Ruth Wehlau holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and is currently teaching at York University, Toronto, and Concordia University, Montreal. She has published articles on Old English poetry.

Bericht

"Ruth Wehlau is very alive to the metaphorical identities and resonances in Old English poems. Her book is an illuminating study of key images of Creation, architecture, individual and social bodies, and poetic creation - as these images exert metaphorical force in particular poems and as they reach out to structure and inform the larger body of Old English poetry." (Alvin A. Lee, McMaster University)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ruth Wehlau, Ruth C. Wehlau
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780820428970
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-2897-0
• Seiten: 161
• Gewicht: 410 g
• Serien: Studies in the Humanities Literature - Politics - Society; Studies in the Humanities; Studies in the Humanities; Studies in the Humanities - Literature, Politics, Society; Studies in the Humanities Literature - Politics - Society
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika