Borrowed Objects And The Art Of Poetry: Spolia In Old English Verse

This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia - creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection. -- .

• | By (Author): Denis (Assistant Professor) Ferhatovic
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 26, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 152613165X
• | ISBN-13: 9781526131652