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The aesthetics of nostalgia historical representation in Old English verse / Renée R. Trilling.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Latin Series: Publication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442697935
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR1764 .A378 2009
  • PR205
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry -- 2. In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse -- 3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict -- 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: The Past in the Present.
Subject: Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Form of History -- 1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry -- 2. In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse -- 3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict -- 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: The Past in the Present.

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

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