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Old English Poetics - The Aesthetics of the Familiar in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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Old English Poetics - The Aesthetics of the Familiar in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
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A new approach to the study of Old English Poetry, featuring close
reading of the text, its form and style. Traditions are created and
maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places:
they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach
to Old English poetics, the author argues that the apparent
timelessness and stability of Old English poetic convention is a
striking historical phenomenon that must be accounted for, not
assumed, and that the perceived conservatism of Old English poetic
conventions is the result of choice. Successive generations of
poets deliberately maintained the traditionality of Old English
poetry, putting it into dialogue with contemporary conditions to
express critique and dissent as well as nostalgia. The author makes
particularuse of the rich language of treasure to be found in
Anglo-Saxon verse to historicise her argument, but her argument has
wide implications for how we approach the role of tradition in the
poetry of earlier societies. DrELIZABETH TYLER teaches in the
Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of York.
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