Research Catalog

Title

The shapes of early English poetry : style, form, history / edited by Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott.

Publication

• Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dumitrescu, Irina
• Weiskott, Eric
• Frank, Roberta

Description

xix, 281 pages : portrait; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

Series Statement

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; LI

Uniform Title

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 64.

Subject

• 450-1500
• English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
• English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• English poetry > Middle English
• English poetry > Old English

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Volume issued in honor of Roberta Frank.
• Series numbering identified as [no.] 64 on publisher website.

Bibliography (note)

• "Roberta Frank's publications, 1970-present": pages x-xix.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Roberta Frank's Publications, 1970-present -- Introduction -- Part 1. Seasons -- Weathering Time in the Wanderer / Hurley, Mary Kate -- Beowulf as Anti-Virgilian World Literature Archaeology, Ekphrasis, and Epic / Johnston, Andrew James -- A Portrait of the Translator as Grendel's Mother The Postcolonial Feminist Polyphony of Meghan Purvis's Beowulf / Ferhatović, Denis -- Part 2. Engines -- Light Verse in Anglo-Saxon England / Thornbury, Emily V. -- The Paris Psalter and English Literary History / Weiskott, Eric -- Generative Form / Novacich, Sarah Elliott -- Kennings and Things: Towards an Object-Oriented Skaldic Poetics / Abram, Christopher -- Part 3. Discordance -- Lydgate's Missing "Ballade" and the Bibliographical Imaginary / Kraebel, Andrew -- Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry / Dumitrescu, Irina -- "Gehyre se ðe wille": Sonic Worlds in Old Testament Poetry / Zweck, Jordan.

Call Number

JFE 20-255

ISBN

• 9781580443593
• 1580443591
• 9781580443609 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1089013020

Title

The shapes of early English poetry : style, form, history / edited by Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott.

Publisher

Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; LI

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 64.

Bibliography

"Roberta Frank's publications, 1970-present": pages x-xix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

450-1500

Added Author

Dumitrescu, Irina, editor.

Weiskott, Eric, editor.

Frank, Roberta, honoree.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-255