Signs That Sing : Hybrid Poetics in Old English Verse /
Maring considers several types of Old English verse: oral poetry, with its simultaneity of composition, dissemination, and reception and dynamic of performance; written poetry and its reliance on intertextual referencing; and liturgical works, heavily laden with Christian meaning. Maring's proj...
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2017]
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Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Hybrid poetics in Old English verse
- Metonymy, Gifre, grdig, and a devouring-the-dead theme
- A lord-retainer theme
- Refiguring hybrid oral-literate signs
- Bright voice of praise: an Old English poet-patron theme
- A sea voyage in the dream of the rood
- Signifying the coming of Christ in the advent lyrics
- Afterword: signs that sing.