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On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems [electronic resource] / edited by John M. Hill

Published
Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Physical Description
vi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Hill, John M., 1946-
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In English with some Old English.
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Contents
On aesthetics and quality : an introduction / John M. Hill -- Poetic exuberance in the Old English Judith / Howell D. Chickering -- Bind and loose : aesthetics and the word in Old English law, charm, and riddle / Tiffany Beechy -- Aesthetic criteria in Old English heroic style / Geoffrey Russom -- Beowulf and the strange necessity of beauty / Peggy A. Knapp -- "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" : Latin prayer and Old English liturgical poetry / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Survival of the most pleasing : a meme-based approach to aesthetic selection / Michael D.C. Drout -- Hunting the Anglo-Saxon aesthetic in large forms : a Möbian quest / Robert D. Stevick -- Structural and affective relations in The dream of the rood : harmonic proportion and Fibonacci-type commodulation / John M. Hill -- Beowulf and Boethius on beauty and truth / Thomas E. Hart -- The subject of language : a psychoanalytic approach to the aesthetics of Old English poetry / Janet Thormann -- The aesthetics of Beowulf : structure, perception, and desire / Yvette Kisor -- The fall of King Hæðcyn : or mimesis 4a, the chapter Auerback never wrote / Tom Shippey.
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ISBN
9780802099440 (acid-free paper)
0802099440
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-290) and index.
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