Borrowed objects and the art of poetry: Spolia in Old English verse (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 18�von 35: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Ferhatovic, Denis

9781526179142: Borrowed objects and the art of poetry: Spolia in Old English verse (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

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ISBN 10: 1526179148 ISBN 13: 9781526179142

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2024

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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. -- .

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

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This book examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems, and Beowulf in an effort to uncover the poetics of spolia, 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 spolia 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, spolia 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 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 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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Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526179148
ISBN 13: 9781526179142
Einband: Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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