The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2019

The Shapes of Early English Poetry

Style, Form, History

Edited by: Eric Weiskott and Irina Dumitrescu

Volume 64 in the series Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781580443609

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This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts.

The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

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Eric Weiskott, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., USA, and Irina Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Roberta Frank’s Publications, 1970–present Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Seasons
Weathering Time in the Wanderer Mary Kate Hurley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Beowulf as Anti-Virgilian World Literature Archaeology, Ekphrasis, and Epic Andrew James Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
A Portrait of the Translator as Grendel’s Mother The Postcolonial Feminist Polyphony of Meghan Purvis’s Beowulf Denis Ferhatović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Part 2. Engines
Light Verse in Anglo-Saxon England Emily V. Thornbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The Paris Psalter and English Literary History Eric Weiskott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Generative Form Sarah Elliott Novacich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Kennings and Things: Towards an Object-Oriented Skaldic Poetics Christopher Abram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part 3. Discordance
Lydgate’s Missing “Ballade” and the Bibliographical Imaginary Andrew Kraebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry Irina Dumitrescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
“Gehyre se ðe wille”: Sonic Worlds in Old Testament Poetry Jordan Zweck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, scholars of Literary Studies and English Poetry
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Poetics; poetry; Medieval Studies; Old English; Middle English

eBook

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781580443609

Hardcover

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9781580443593