Denis Ferhatovic (Assistant Professor)

Borrowed objects and the art of poetry

Spolia in Old English verse

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Produktbeschreibung

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia â creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781526131652
• ISBN-10: 152613165X
• Artikelnr.: 54895406

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, spolia 1 Encyclopedic
miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles 2 Architecture
of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in Exodus
3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas
4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in Judith 5 A
hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf
Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond
Bibliography Index