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The aesthetics of nostalgia : historical representation in Old English verse / Renée R. Trilling.
LIBRA PR205 .T75 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trilling, Renée Rebecca.
- Series:
- Toronto Anglo-Saxon series
- Language:
- English
- English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Literature and history--England.
- Literature and history.
- Nostalgia in literature.
- History in literature.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in Latin and Old English.
- Contents:
- 1 Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry 28
- 2 In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse 64
- 3 Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict 125
- 4 Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 175
- 5 Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of History 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802099716
- 0802099718
- OCLC:
- 455787967
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