{"product_id":"9781526179142-borrowed-objects-and-the-art-of-poetry","title":"Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpolia in Old English Verse\u003cbr\u003eThis study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e to formulate the poetics of \u003ci\u003espolia \u003c\/i\u003e– creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.\u003cbr\u003eThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (\u003ci\u003eExodus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAndreas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJudith\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003ein order to uncover the poetics of \u003ci\u003espolia\u003c\/i\u003e, an imaginative use of recycled fictional artefacts to create sites of metatextual reflection. Old English poetry famously lacks an explicit \u003ci\u003ears poetica\u003c\/i\u003e. This book argues that attention to particularly charged moments within texts – especially those concerned with translation, transformation and the layering of various pasts – yields a previously unrecognised means for theorising Anglo-Saxon poetic creativity. \u003ci\u003eBorrowed objects and the art of poetry\u003c\/i\u003e works at the intersections of materiality and poetics, balancing insights from thing theory and related approaches with close readings of passages from Old English texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56081720050038,"sku":"9781526179142","price":22.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29772373.jpg?v=1754973467","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526179142-borrowed-objects-and-the-art-of-poetry","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}