Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture /
Explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'.
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. On Anglo-Saxon things
- 1. Æschere's head, Grendel's mother and the sword that isn't a sword : unreadable things in Beowulf
- 2. The 'thingness' of time in the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book and Aldhelm's Latin enigmata
- 3. Riddles of the Franks Casket : enigmas, agency and assemblage
- 4. Assembling and reshaping Christianity in the Lives of St Cuthbert and Lindisfarne Gospels
- 5. Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell monument : fragility, brokenness and failure
- Afterword. Old things with new things to say
- Bibliography
- Index.
