Performance in Beowulf and other Old English Poems (Anglo-Saxon Studies) HARD

  
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems. It proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs.

It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture.

Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and La? It also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics. Introduction: Realising the Intangible 1 Instruments of the Poet: Exploiting the Old English Lexis 2 Multiformity and the Orality of Associative, Architectonic Poetics 3 Providence and Pleasure: Performance as Symbol 4 Storytelling in. 5 Wisdom and Power: Philosophies of Performance 6 Theme Songs: An English Tradition of Performance?

7 The Lure of the Lyre: Interpretation, Reenactment, and the Corpus Conclusion:'Poetic Performance. 6.14 x 0.69 x 9.21 inches.

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