Ferhatovic Borrowed objects and the art of poetry

<i>Spolia</i> in Old English verse
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3166-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferhatovic, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, spolia
1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles
2 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 beyond
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Denis Ferhatovic is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, New London