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Borrowed objects and the art of poetry
Spolia in Old English verseManchester Medieval Literature and Culture
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134,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 26.03.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526131676 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 200 |
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Beschreibungen
This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (<i>Exodus</i>, <i>Andreas</i>, <i>Judith</i>) and <i>Beowulf </i>in order to uncover the poetics of <i>spolia</i>, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. Old English poetry famously lacks an explicit <i>ars poetica</i>. 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. <i>Borrowed objects and the art of poetry</i> 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.
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and <i>Beowulf</i> to formulate the poetics of <i>spolia </i>– creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.
Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, <i>spolia</i>
1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles
2 Architecture of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in <i>Exodus</i>
3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in <i>Andreas</i>
4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in <i>Judith</i>
5 A hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in <i>Beowulf</i>
Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond
Bibliography
Index
1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles
2 Architecture of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in <i>Exodus</i>
3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in <i>Andreas</i>
4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in <i>Judith</i>
5 A hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in <i>Beowulf</i>
Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond
Bibliography
Index
Denis Ferhatovic is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, New London
This book examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems, and <i>Beowulf </i>in an effort to uncover the poetics of <i>spolia</i>, an imaginative use of fictional recycled artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection.
The resistance of horns, swords, pillars, sculptures, and hoards to submersion in these texts is essential and productive. The appeal of such <i>spolia</i> lies in their partially preserved Otherness, which enables them to gesture towards a story or history outside the new framework. Through the paradox of elusive materiality, <i>spolia</i> communicate awareness that artworks have a weight and an impact that allows them to break through frameworks, crossing temporal and geographical boundaries. Old English poetry famously – and for a corpus rather interested in the enigmatic and the oblique, appropriately – lacks an explicit <i>ars poetica</i>. 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.
<i>Borrowed objects and the art of poetry</i> works at the intersections of recent work in materiality and poetics, balancing insights of thing theory and related approaches with close readings of specific passages from Old English texts.
The resistance of horns, swords, pillars, sculptures, and hoards to submersion in these texts is essential and productive. The appeal of such <i>spolia</i> lies in their partially preserved Otherness, which enables them to gesture towards a story or history outside the new framework. Through the paradox of elusive materiality, <i>spolia</i> communicate awareness that artworks have a weight and an impact that allows them to break through frameworks, crossing temporal and geographical boundaries. Old English poetry famously – and for a corpus rather interested in the enigmatic and the oblique, appropriately – lacks an explicit <i>ars poetica</i>. 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.
<i>Borrowed objects and the art of poetry</i> works at the intersections of recent work in materiality and poetics, balancing insights of thing theory and related approaches with close readings of specific passages from Old English texts.
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