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



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Autore: Hill John M Visualizza persona
Titolo: On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems / / edited by John M. Hill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010
©2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
Disciplina: 829.1009
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: England
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): HillJohn M. <1946->
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.
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ISBN: 1-4426-9875-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811983603321
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Serie: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.