Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse, Paperba...-image

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse, Paperba...

$ 16.84

Item Length: 8.5 in Item Weight: 8.2 Oz Item Height: 0.4 in Author: Denis Ferhatovic width: 5.4 in Publication Year: 2024 Language: English Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry height: 0.4 in Format: Trade Paperback Book Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Ser. Topic: Medieval Item Width: 5.4 in Book Title: Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse Number of Pages: 200 Pages Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9781526179142

Description

Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse, Paperba.... Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse, Paperback by Ferhatovic, Denis, ISBN 1526179148, ISBN-13 9781526179142, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.

Related products