The Shapes of Early English Poetry : : Style, Form, History / / ed. by Eric Weiskott, Irina Dumitrescu.

This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these tradit...

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Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Roberta Frank’s Publications, 1970–present
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Seasons
  • Weathering Time in the Wanderer
  • Beowulf as Anti-Virgilian World Literature Archaeology, Ekphrasis, and Epic
  • A Portrait of the Translator as Grendel’s Mother The Postcolonial Feminist Polyphony of Meghan Purvis’s Beowulf
  • Part 2. Engines
  • Light Verse in Anglo-Saxon England
  • The Paris Psalter and English Literary History
  • Generative Form
  • Kennings and Things: Towards an Object-Oriented Skaldic Poetics
  • Part 3. Discordance
  • Lydgate’s Missing “Ballade” and the Bibliographical Imaginary
  • Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry
  • “Gehyre se ðe wille”: Sonic Worlds in Old Testament Poetry
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index