Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics

Author:   Graeme Davis ,  Karl Bernhardt ,  Beverliey Braune
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   50
ISBN:  

9781800795440


Pages:   604
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space: A Creative Approach to Old Norse Poetry and Poetics


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This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. It considers lacunae in the history, criticism and scholarly translations of Old Norse poetry into English through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, demonstrating critical approaches to Old Norse poetry and poetics. The poetic enactment analyses the complex relationship between historical gap and creative reader, the importance of the comprehension of literary objects as ideal or immutable, and the poetic construction of readable texts with particular reference to skaldic images. The poetic demonstration of scholarly approaches also raises a number of questions about poetic process and the role of composers, readers and historical contexts in Old Norse poetry. Analysing narrative-movement, diction, grammar, legend, the aural, the visual, authenticity, meaning and poetic objects as scripts, the author offers a theory of actual and virtual reading.

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Author:   Graeme Davis ,  Karl Bernhardt ,  Beverliey Braune
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   50
Weight:   0.894kg
ISBN:  

9781800795440


ISBN 10:   1800795440
Pages:   604
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: The Companion Reader – Gaps and Critical Contexts – From Empty Helmets and a Few Bones – Who Is the Reader? And How Many of Us Are There? – Roman Ingarden’s Observer as Composer – Musical Chairs – Measures of Skaldic Poetry: What Does Metre Mean? – The Legibility of Contours – Commanding the Terrain of Lacunae – A Grammar of Secrets – Gíld-rac Manuscript – Rinaldi da Giacomo’s Argomento – The History: Books I– VII – The Successors: Books VIII– X.

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BEVERLIEY BRAUNE holds the degrees of Master of Philosophy in English from the University of the West Indies and Doctor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. She is the author of many articles in journals and books, and two books of poetry. She has been an invitee to the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies conference and a guest of the Melbourne Festival of Poetry, the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Varuna, the Queensland Poetry Festival and the Brisbane Writers’ Festival. She lives in Australia.

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