Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition (eBook, ePUB)

Words, ideas, interactions
Redaktion: Cavell, Megan; Neville, Jennifer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The contributors treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated by scholarship. Together, the chapters reveal that there is no single, right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths. This book will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It contains new as well as established voices, including Jonathan Wilcox, Mercedes Salvador-Bello and Jennifer Neville.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526133731
• Artikelnr.: 58801413

Autorenporträt

Megan Cavell is Birmingham Fellow and lecturer in medieval literature at the University of Birmingham Jennifer Neville is Reader in Anglo-Saxon Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Megan Cavell, Jennifer Neville and Victoria Symons Exeter
Book riddle titles Part I: Words Introduction - Megan Cavell and Jennifer
Neville 1 Sorting out the rings: astronomical tropes in Þragbysig (R.4) -
Jennifer Neville 2 Wundor and wrætlic: the anatomy of wonder in the sex
riddles - Sharon E. Rhodes 3 Domesticating the devil: the early medieval
contexts of Aldhelm's cat riddle - Megan Cavell 4 The crafting of sound in
the riddles of the Exeter Book - Francesca Brooks 5 Sound, voice, and
articulation in the Exeter Book riddles -Robert Stanton Part II: Ideas
Introduction - Megan Cavell and Jennifer Neville 6 Warriors and their
battle gear: conceptual blending in Anhaga (R.5) and Wæpnum Awyrged (R.20)
- Karin Olsen 7 Humour and the Exeter Book riddles: incongruity in
Feþegeorn (R.31) - Jonathan Wilcox 8 Memory and transformative fear in the
Exeter Book riddles - Rafal Boryslawski 9 Monstrous healing: Aldhelm's
leech riddle - Peter Buchanan 10Freolic, sellic: an ecofeminist reading of
Modor Monigra (R.84) - Corinne Dale 11 Mind, mood and meteorology in
Þrymful Þeow (R.1-3) - James Paz Part III: Interactions Introduction -
Megan Cavell and Jennifer Neville 12 The nursemaid, the mother and the
prostitute: tracing an insular riddle topos on both sides of the English
Channel - Mercedes Salvador-Bello 13 The moon and stars in the Bern and
Eusebius riddles - Neville Mogford 14 Enigmatic knowing and the Vercelli
Book - Britt Mize 15 The materiality of fire in Legbysig and Ligbysig
(R.30a and b) and an unexpected new solution - Pirkko A. Koppinen 16 Dyre
cræft: new translations of Exeter riddle fragments Modor Monigra (R.84),
Se Wiht Wombe Hæfde (R.89), and Brunra Beot (R.92), accompanied by notes on
process' - Miller Wolf Oberman Afterword - Megan Cavell and Jennifer
Neville Index