Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture

Informationen zum Autor James Paz is Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester Klappentext This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'. Zusammenfassung This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture! making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: on Anglo-Saxon things1 Æschere's head, Grendel's mother and the sword that isn't a sword: unreadable things in Beowulf 2 The 'thingness' of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm's Latin enigmata 3 The riddles of the Franks Casket: enigmas, agency and assemblage4 Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Lives of St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels5 The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell monument: fragility, brokenness and failureAfterword: old things with new things to sayIndex

Product details

• Authors: James Paz, Paz James
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781526101105
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0110-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, ART / History / European / Medieval