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OverviewThis 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. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Denis Ferhatovic (Assistant Professor)Publisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781526131652ISBN 10: 152613165 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 26 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 -- .Reviews'Ferhatovic demonstrates how productive the turn to material culture can be for understanding early medieval poetry.' Speculum 'Ferhatovic has created a rich tapestry exploring these prominent, unsettling things as they are reflected in the poetry of a culture that knew all too well what plunder meant. His debut monograph provides a sharply argued and unconventional approach to several perplexing and important Old English works, finding a dramatically new angle from which to explore them.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology -- . 'Ferhatovic ´demonstrates how productive the turn to material culture can be for understanding early medieval poetry.' Speculum 'Ferhatovic has created a rich tapestry exploring these prominent, unsettling things as they are reflected in the poetry of a culture that knew all too well what plunder meant. His debut monograph provides a sharply argued and unconventional approach to several perplexing and important Old English works, finding a dramatically new angle from which to explore them.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology -- . Author InformationDenis Ferhatovic is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, New London Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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