Weaving Words and Binding Bodies : : The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature /

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies : : The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature / / Megan Cavell.

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References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehens...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
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Cavell, Megan ,
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Cavell, Megan ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Editions
  • Construction and Constriction: Introducing Human Experience in Old English Poetry
  • Part I. Webs and Rings: Experiencing Objects
  • 1. The Material Context of Weaving
  • 2. The Woven Mail-Coat
  • 3. The Material Context of Structural Binding
  • Part II. Fetters and Chains: Experiencing Bondage
  • 4. Binding in Nature
  • 5. Imprisonment and Hell
  • 6. Slavery and Servitude
  • Part III. Patterns and Nets: Experiencing the Internal and the Abstract
  • 7. The Body and Mind
  • 8. Language and Knowledge
  • 9. Creation, Magic, and Fate
  • 10. Peace
  • Weaving and Binding: Conclusions on Human Experience and World View
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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