Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture / / James Paz.
"Anglo-Saxon ‘things’ could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Exeter Book Riddles, telling us how they were made or how they behave. The Franks Casket is a box of bone that alludes to its former fate as a whale that swam aground onto the shingle, and the Ruthwell monument is a stone colum...
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| Superior document: | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture (Manchester, England).
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Anglo- Saxon things
- 1. Æschere’s head, Grendel’s mother and the swordthat isn’t a sword: Unreadable things in Beowulf
- 2. The ‘thingness’ of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm’s Latin enigmata
- 3. The riddles of the Franks Casket: Enigmas, agencyand assemblage
- 4. Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Livesof St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels
- 5. The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwellmonument: Fragility, brokenness and failure
- Afterword: Old things with new things to say
- Bibliography
- Index.