Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Poem Titles, Orthography, Editions, and Translations
- 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 Beowulf and Meta-storytelling in Andreas
- 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’
- Bibliography
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
List of Illustrations and Tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Poem Titles, Orthography, Editions, and Translations
- 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 Beowulf and Meta-storytelling in Andreas
- 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’
- Bibliography
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022