Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture /

"Anglo-Saxon 'things' could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Exeter Book Riddles, telling us how they were made or how they behave. The Franks Casket is a box of bone that alludes to its former fate as a whale that swam aground onto the shingle, and the Ruthwell monument is a s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paz, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture (Manchester, England).
Temas:
To 1500
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
Material culture > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Civilisation anglo-saxonne.
Anglo-Saxon.
English.
Indo-European languages.
Literary studies: classical, early and medieval.
Literary studies: general.
Literary theory.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical.
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
English literature > Old English
Material culture
Great Britain
beowulf.
material culture.
franks casket.
anglo-saxon.
middle ages.
exeter book.
aldhelm.
st cuthbert.
thing theory.
dream of the rood.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On Anglo- Saxon things
  • 1. Æschere’s head, Grendel’s mother and the swordthat isn’t a sword: Unreadable things in Beowulf
  • 2. The ‘thingness’ of time in the Old English riddles ofthe Exeter Book and Aldhelm’s Latin enigmata
  • 3. The riddles of the Franks Casket: Enigmas, agencyand assemblage
  • 4. Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Livesof St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels
  • 5. The Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwellmonument: Fragility, brokenness and failure
  • Afterword: Old things with new things to say
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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