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Old English Poetics: The Aesthetics of the Familiar in Anglo-Saxon England by Elizabeth M. Tyler [Repost]
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Old English Poetics: The Aesthetics of the Familiar in Anglo-Saxon England by Elizabeth M. Tyler
English | Aug 17, 2006 | ISBN: 1903153204 | 214 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Aug 17, 2006 | ISBN: 1903153204 | 214 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Traditions are created and maintained by groups of people living in specific times and places: they do not have a life of their own. In this radical new approach to Old English poetics, the author argues that the apparent timelessness and stability of Old English poetic convention is a striking historical phenomenon that must be accounted for, not assumed, and that the perceived conservatism of Old English poetic conventions is the result of choice.