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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Exeter book."”.
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Artistry in the Riddles of 'The Exeter Book.'
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Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle
While many riddles exist in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book containing female characters, both as actual human females and personified objects and aspects of nature, few scholars have discussed how the anthropomorphized “females” of the riddles challenge and broaden more conventional portrayals of what …
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The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer
… traditional methods of classification for this Exeter Book poem by using an early eastern Christian version of the seven deadly sins--the deadly passions--as a new interpretive framework.
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Riddlehoard,
… inspired by the Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book. Riddlehoard describes objects that fall into three categories: objects accessible to the Anglo-Saxons, often because they pertain to the natural world; technological items largely unique to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English poetry but supply symbolic forms that shape it as well. Approaching poetics through the medium allows original insights into several paradigmatic works of the English Middle Ages such as …
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A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry
… concerned with depictions of early life in the Exeter Book Riddles; it contends that these texts have been unduly passed over in discussions of ageing in Old English, seemingly due to their (mostly) non-human subjects. The third chapter addresses the treatment of early and late adulthood in the …