This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia â creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia â creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .
Denis Ferhatovic is Associate Professor of English at Connecticut College, New London
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, spolia 1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles 2 Architecture of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in Exodus 3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas 4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in Judith 5 A hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond Bibliography Index
Introduction: Powerful fragments: ruin, relics, spolia 1 Encyclopedic miniatures: combinatory powers of loot in the Exeter Riddles 2 Architecture of the past and the future: transformative potential of plunder in Exodus 3 Animated, animating: bringing stone, flesh, and text to life in Andreas 4 Zooming out, cutting through: resistance to incorporation in Judith 5 A hoard full of plunder: paradoxical materiality of loss in Beowulf Afterword: Resistant material remnants in Old English and beyond Bibliography Index
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