04703nam 2200745 450 991045863770332120200520144314.01-4426-9875-610.3138/9781442698758(CKB)2560000000054425(EBL)3272675(OCoLC)923773973(SSID)ssj0000486276(PQKBManifestationID)11929856(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486276(PQKBWorkID)10430301(PQKB)10634102(CEL)433741(CaBNvSL)slc00226144(MiAaPQ)EBC3272675(MiAaPQ)EBC4672999(DE-B1597)465240(OCoLC)1013963041(OCoLC)944176524(DE-B1597)9781442698758(Au-PeEL)EBL4672999(CaPaEBR)ebr11258648(OCoLC)707712764(EXLCZ)99256000000005442520160926h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems /edited by John M. HillToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2010.©20101 online resource (310 p.)Toronto Anglo-Saxon SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-9944-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- On Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction / Hill, John M. -- 1. Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith / Chickering, Howell D. -- 2. Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle / Beechy, Tiffany -- 3. Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style / Russom, Geoffrey -- 4. Beowulf and the Strange Necessity of Beauty / Knapp, Peggy A. -- 5. 'Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness': Latin Prayer and Old English Liturgical Poetry / Larratt Keefer, Sarah -- 6. Survival of the Most Pleasing: A Meme-Based Approach to Aesthetic Selection / Drout, Michael D.C. -- 7. Hunting the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic in Large Forms: A Möbian Quest / Stevick, Robert D. -- 8. Structural and Affective Relations in The Dream of the Rood: Harmonic Proportion and a Fibonacci-Type Commodulation / Hill, John M. -- 9. Beowulf and Boethius on Beauty and Truth / Hart, Thomas E. -- 10. The Subject of Language: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Aesthetics of Old English Poetry / Thormann, Janet -- 11. The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire / Kisor, Yvette -- 12. 'The Fall of King Hæðcyn': Or, Mimesis 4a, the Chapter Auerbach Never Wrote / Shippey, Tom -- Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index -- BackmatterWhat makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry?While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to be exceptional literary achievements - Beowulf, Judith, the Vercelli book - there has been little systematic investigation of the basis for these appraisals. With new essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos, and reader response, the contributors to this collection aim to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. 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.Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.English poetryOld English, ca. 450-1100History and criticismArt and literatureEnglandHistoryTo 1500LiteratureAestheticsEnglish poetryOld English, ca. 450-1100AppreciationElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.Art and literatureHistoryLiteratureAesthetics.English poetryAppreciation.829.1009Hill John M, 169498Hill John M.1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458637703321On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems2188641UNINA