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Autore: |
Hill John M
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Titolo: |
On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems / / edited by John M. Hill
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4426-9875-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791657203321 |
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