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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry : Spolia in old English verse
- Title
- Borrowed objects and the art of poetry : Spolia in old English verse / Denis Ferhatović.
- Author
- Ferhatovic, Denis
- Publication
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 185 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 25
- Uniform Title
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; v. 25.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Powerful fragments: Ruin, relics, spoila -- Encyclopedic miniatures: Combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter riddles -- Architecture of the past and future: Transformative potential of plunder in Exodus -- Animated, animating: Bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas -- Zooming out, cutting through: Resistance to incorporation in Judith -- A hoard full of plunder: Paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf -- Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3381
- ISBN
- 152613165X
- 9781526131652
- OCLC
- 1067246443
- Author
- Ferhatovic, Denis, author.
- Title
- Borrowed objects and the art of poetry : Spolia in old English verse / Denis Ferhatović.
- Publisher
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Manchester medieval literature and culture ; 25Manchester medieval literature and culture ; v. 25.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 450-1100
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781526131676
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3381