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Representation and design : tracing a hermeneutics of Old English poetry
- Title
- Representation and design : tracing a hermeneutics of Old English poetry / Pauline E. Head.
- Author
- Head, Pauline E., 1954-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR201 .H43 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 166 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Representation and Design examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, beginning with the assumption that Anglo-Saxon concepts of reading were probably very different from those that dominate our own literary culture. The book insists on the semantic interaction of representation and design, two aspects of Old English poetry that traditionally have been examined separately, and draws on Anglo-Saxon pictorial arts as a model throughout. It disputes the conventional dichotomy that interpretation makes between content and form; redefines content as a particular mode of representation - a reflection of texts and ideologies and recognizes form as complex and meaningful design so that the "two" no longer can be distinguished in the process of interpretation.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in medieval studies
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in medieval studies
- Subject
- To 1500
- English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- Authors and readers > England > History > To 1500
- Reader-response criticism > England
- Mimesis in literature
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Hermeneutics
- hermeneutics
- Authors and readers
- Reader-response criticism
- Versdichtung
- Rezeption
- Leser
- Gedichten
- Oudengels
- Hermeneutiek
- Mimesis
- England
- Altenglisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Locating the Reader: Perspectives in Old English Poetry and Anglo-Saxon Art -- 2. Peripheral Meanings: Frames in Old English Poetry and Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Illumination -- 3. Images of Storytelling: The Presence of the Past in Old English Poetry -- Afterword: Tracing Signs of Elusion.
- ISBN
- 0791432033
- 9780791432037
- 0791432041
- 9780791432044
- LCCN
- 96002391
- OCLC
- ocm34358591
- 34358591
- SCSB-2112417
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library