LEADER 04703nam 2200745 450 001 9910458637703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9875-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442698758 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054425 035 $a(EBL)3272675 035 $a(OCoLC)923773973 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430301 035 $a(PQKB)10634102 035 $a(CEL)433741 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226144 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672999 035 $a(DE-B1597)465240 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963041 035 $a(OCoLC)944176524 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442698758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672999 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258648 035 $a(OCoLC)707712764 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054425 100 $a20160926h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems /$fedited by John M. Hill 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$d©2010 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Anglo-Saxon Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-9944-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOn Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction / $rHill, John M. -- $t1. Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith / $rChickering, Howell D. -- $t2. Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle / $rBeechy, Tiffany -- $t3. Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style / $rRussom, Geoffrey -- $t4. Beowulf and the Strange Necessity of Beauty / $rKnapp, Peggy A. -- $t5. 'Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness': Latin Prayer and Old English Liturgical Poetry / $rLarratt Keefer, Sarah -- $t6. Survival of the Most Pleasing: A Meme-Based Approach to Aesthetic Selection / $rDrout, Michael D.C. -- $t7. Hunting the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic in Large Forms: A Möbian Quest / $rStevick, Robert D. -- $t8. Structural and Affective Relations in The Dream of the Rood: Harmonic Proportion and a Fibonacci-Type Commodulation / $rHill, John M. -- $t9. Beowulf and Boethius on Beauty and Truth / $rHart, Thomas E. -- $t10. The Subject of Language: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Aesthetics of Old English Poetry / $rThormann, Janet -- $t11. The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire / $rKisor, Yvette -- $t12. 'The Fall of King Hæðcyn': Or, Mimesis 4a, the Chapter Auerbach Never Wrote / $rShippey, Tom -- $tContributors -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aWhat makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry?While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to be exceptional literary achievements - Beowulf, Judith, the Vercelli book - there has been little systematic investigation of the basis for these appraisals. With new essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos, and reader response, the contributors to this collection aim to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form. 410 0$aToronto Anglo-Saxon series. 606 $aEnglish poetry$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArt and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature$xAesthetics 606 $aEnglish poetry$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xAppreciation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArt and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature$xAesthetics. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xAppreciation. 676 $a829.1009 700 $aHill$b John M, $0169498 702 $aHill$b John M.$f1946- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458637703321 996 $aOn the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems$92188641 997 $aUNINA