Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture (Hardcover)

This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture uncovers the voice and agency possessed by nonhuman things across Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture. It makes a new contribution to 'thing theory' and rethinks conventional divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects in the early Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon writers and craftsmen describe artefacts and animals through riddling forms or enigmatic language, balancing an attempt to speak and listen to things with an understanding that these nonhumans often elude, defy and withdraw from us. But the active role that things have in the early medieval world is also linked to the Germanic origins of the word, where a thing is a kind of assembly, with the ability to draw together other elements, creating assemblages in which human and nonhuman forces combine. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Release date:	June 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	James Paz
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-0110-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	1-5261-0110-6
Barcode:	9781526101105

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