UID:
edocfu_9958353381102883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442698758
Content:
Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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On Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction --
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1. Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith --
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2. Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle --
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3. Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style --
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4. Beowulf and the Strange Necessity of Beauty --
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5. ‘Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness’: Latin Prayer and Old English Liturgical Poetry --
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6. Survival of the Most Pleasing: A Meme-Based Approach to Aesthetic Selection --
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7. Hunting the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic in Large Forms: A Möbian Quest --
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8. Structural and Affective Relations in The Dream of the Rood: Harmonic Proportion and a Fibonacci-Type Commodulation --
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9. Beowulf and Boethius on Beauty and Truth --
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10. The Subject of Language: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Aesthetics of Old English Poetry --
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11. The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire --
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12. ‘The Fall of King Hæðcyn’: Or, Mimesis 4a, the Chapter Auerbach Never Wrote --
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Contributors --
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Works Cited --
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Index --
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Backmatter
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442698758
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442698758
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