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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791657203321

Autore

Hill John M

Titolo

On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems / / edited by John M. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4426-9875-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series

Disciplina

829.1009

Soggetti

English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism

Art and literature - England - History - To 1500

Literature - Aesthetics

English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Appreciation

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On aesthetics and quality : an introduction / John M. Hill -- Poetic exuberance in the Old English Judith / Howell D. Chickering -- Bind and loose : aesthetics and the word in Old English law, charm, and riddle / Tiffany Beechy -- Aesthetic criteria in Old English heroic style / Geoffrey Russom -- Beowulf and the strange necessity of beauty / Peggy A. Knapp -- "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" : Latin prayer and Old English liturgical poetry / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Survival of the most pleasing : a meme-based approach to aesthetic selection / Michael D.C. Drout -- Hunting the Anglo-Saxon aesthetic in large forms : a Möbian quest / Robert D. Stevick -- Structural and affective relations in The dream of the rood : harmonic proportion and Fibonacci-type commodulation / John M. Hill -- Beowulf and Boethius on beauty and truth / Thomas E. Hart -- The subject of language : a psychoanalytic approach to the aesthetics of Old English poetry / Janet



Thormann -- The aesthetics of Beowulf : structure, perception, and desire / Yvette Kisor -- The fall of King Haeŏcyn : or mimesis 4a, the chapter Auerback never wrote / Tom Shippey.

Sommario/riassunto

Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form.