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Signs that sing : hybrid poetics in Old English verse / Heather Maring.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813052922
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR201 .S546 2017
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Contents:
Hybrid poetics in Old English verse -- Metonymy, Gifre, gr¿dig, 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.
Subject: 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 project examines the expressive possibilities created by hybridization as well as how these expressions influence our interpretation of individual poems from the ninth to eleventh centuries.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Hybrid poetics in Old English verse -- Metonymy, Gifre, gr¿dig, 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.

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 project examines the expressive possibilities created by hybridization as well as how these expressions influence our interpretation of individual poems from the ninth to eleventh centuries.

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