| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 299 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series
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Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Hæŏcyn : or mimesis 4a, the chapter Auerback never wrote / Tom Shippey. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beowulf.
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Beowulf. |
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English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Art and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Literature -- Aesthetics. |
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English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Appreciation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hill, John M., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780802099440 |
| ISBN |
9781442698758 (electronic book) |
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1442698756 (electronic book) |
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9780802099440 (bound) |
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