On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poemsedited by John M. Hill. 

 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2010). 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) 
 - Toronto Anglo-Saxon series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>On aesthetics and quality : an introduction /  Poetic exuberance in the Old English Judith /  Bind and loose : aesthetics and the word in Old English law, charm, and riddle /  Aesthetic criteria in Old English heroic style /  Beowulf and the strange necessity of beauty /  "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" : Latin prayer and Old English liturgical poetry /  Survival of the most pleasing : a meme-based approach to aesthetic selection /  Hunting the Anglo-Saxon aesthetic in large forms : a Möbian quest /  Structural and affective relations in The dream of the rood : harmonic proportion and Fibonacci-type commodulation /  Beowulf and Boethius on beauty and truth /  The subject of language : a psychoanalytic approach to the aesthetics of Old English poetry /  The aesthetics of Beowulf : structure, perception, and desire /  The fall of King Hæŏcyn : or mimesis 4a, the chapter Auerback never wrote /  John M. Hill --  Howell D. Chickering --  Tiffany Beechy --  Geoffrey Russom --  Peggy A. Knapp --  Sarah Larratt Keefer --  Michael D.C. Drout --  Robert D. Stevick --  John M. Hill --  Thomas E. Hart --  Janet Thormann --  Yvette Kisor --  Tom Shippey. 
<br/><br/> Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442698758 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Beowulf.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100<br/>Art and literature--History--England--To 1500.<br/>Literature--Aesthetics.<br/>English poetry--Appreciation.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR203  / .O584 2010