Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry - Spolia in Old English Verse

Informationen zum Autor Denis Ferhatovic is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, New London Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, spolia 1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles2 Architecture of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in Exodus 3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas 4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in Judith 5 A hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyondBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Denis Ferhatovic, Denis (Assistant Professor) Ferhatovic
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2019
• EAN: 9781526131652
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3165-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, POETRY / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon