Renee R Trilling

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

Historical Representation in Old English Verse

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Produktbeschreibung

Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487521530
• ISBN-10: 1487521537
• Artikelnr.: 45063913

Autorenporträt

By Renée R. Trilling

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry
2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse
3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest
4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of
History
Conclusion
Bibliography