Aesthetics of Nostalgia - Historical Representation in Old English Verse

Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

List of contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry
2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse
3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest
4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of History

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the author

By Renée R. Trilling

Summary

Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Renee R Trilling, Renee R. Trilling
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781487521530
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2153-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon; Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies