Renee R Trilling

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia

Historical Representation in Old English Verse

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Produktbeschreibung

Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487521530
• ISBN-10: 1487521537
• Artikelnr.: 45063913

Autorenporträt

Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry
2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse
3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest
4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of
History
Conclusion
Bibliography