Borrowed objects and the art of poetry: Spolia in Old English verse by Denis Ferhatovic

Borrowed objects and the art of poetry: Spolia in Old English verse

Denis Ferhatovic

200 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This book examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems, and Beowulf in an effort to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginative use of fictional recycled artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. The resistance of horns, swor...

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