Old English Poetry and Its Legacy

This collection focuses on the legacy of Old English poetry and includes new interpretations of works such as Exeter Book Riddle 5, which provides an enduring legacy of social critique crafted through humor; the three manuscripts that contain the Solomon and Saturn dialogues, which reveal a shift in...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bjork, Robert E, editor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720246906719
Table of Contents:
  • About the Editor vii
  • Preface to "Old English Poetry and Its Legacy" ix
  • Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5 1
  • The Manuscripts of Solomon and Saturn: CCCC 41, CCCC 422, BL Cotton Vitellius A.xv 11
  • An Unseen Eighth Rune: Runic Legacy and Multiliteral Performativity in Cynewulf's The Fates of the Apostles 25
  • Wyrd Poetics: Collapsing Timescapes and Untimely Desires in The Ruin 37
  • Rereading The Wife's Lament with Dido of Carthage: The Husband and the Herheard 49
  • Old English Enigmatic Poems and Their Reception in Early Scholarship and Supernatural Fiction 81
  • Tearas Feollon: Tears and Weeping in Old English Literature 103
  • Beowulf and the Hunt 127.