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Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature

Cavell, Megan

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1442637226
ISBN13: 9781442637221
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Mar 30 2016
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.

Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertextual analysis and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the poetry of Cynewulf, and other key texts. Megan Cavell highlights the prominent use of weaving and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on important tropes such as the lord-retainer bond and the gendered role of peace-weaving in Anglo-Saxon society. Through the analysis of metrical, rhetorical, and linguistic features and canonical and neglected texts in a wide range of genres, Weaving Words and Binding Bodies makes an important contribution to the ongoing study of Anglo-Saxon poetics.

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