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Author:

Garner, Lori Ann.

Title:

Structuring spaces : oral poetics and architecture in early medieval England / Lori Ann Garner.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvi, 367 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Architecture in literature.
Architecture and literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-356) and index.

Contents:

Toward an architectural oral poetics. Oral tradition and vernacular architecture -- From structure to meaning in Old English verse -- Architectural landscape of Old English verse. Role of architecture in verse translations -- Architectural metaphor and metonymy -- (Re)constructions of memory -- Post-conquest developments and continuations. Architectural and poetic transitions -- Poetics of built space in Middle English narrative verse -- Afterword: modern encounters with Anglo-Saxon spaces.

Series:

Poetics of orality and literacy

ISBN:

0268029806 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268029807 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)693809782

LCCN:

2010052719

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)