Old English Poetry and Its Legacy / by Robert E Bjork (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bjork, Robert E, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

English poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 the use of poetry over time; Fates of the Apostles in which a previously unseen eighth rune is semiotically operative along with Cynewulf's signature; The Wife's Lament, in which the cave occupied by the wife has its archeological antecedents in early medieval rock-cut buildings; The Ruin, in which both the poem's text and the silent spaces of wyrd's traces are inscribed upon the material manuscript; the history of the reception of the riddles, which is instrumental in inspiring one of the acknowledged classic ghost stories of the twentieth century; tears and weeping in the whole corpus of Old English literature; and Beowulf, in which the figures of the stag and wolf play an important role in the thematic design of the poem but have not been examined before. The reprint is prefaced with a detailed account of the scholarly contributions to Old English studies by John D. Niles.

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.

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ISBN:

3-0365-6234-6