Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England - Couverture rigide

Garner, Lori Ann

 
9780268206956: Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England
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ISBN 10 : 0268206953 ISBN 13 : 9780268206956
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022

Synopsis

In Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, Lori Ann Garner illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within the vernacular verse of early medieval England, portrayals that consistently demonstrate a shared aesthetic between literary texts and physical buildings. Through systematic exploration of the period's verbal and material culture as complementary art forms, Garner argues that in Anglo-Saxon England the arts of poetry and building emerged from the same cultural matrix. Not only did Anglo-Saxon builders and poets draw demonstrably from many of the same traditionally encoded motifs and images, but so rhetorically powerful was the period's architectural poetics that its expressive force continued in literature and architecture produced long after the Norman Conquest.

Far from conceiving this inherited tradition as monolithic in nature, Structuring Spaces foregrounds the complex interface of orality and literacy as a nexus of varied and multivalent cultural traditions that influenced the production of texts and buildings alike. After establishing a model of architectural poetics based on oral theory and vernacular architecture, Garner explores fictionalized buildings in such works as Beowulf and the Ruin, architectural representation in Old English adaptations of Greek and Latin works, uses of architectural metaphor, and themes of buildings in Anglo-Saxon maxims, riddles, elegies, hagiographies, and charms. Her book draws on scholarship from art history, archaeology, anthropology, and architecture, as well as the great wealth of studies addressing the literature itself.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lori Ann Garner is assistant professor of English at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268206953
ISBN 13 
9780268206956
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
277
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9780268029807: Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England

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ISBN 10 :  0268029806 ISBN 13 :  9780268029807
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011
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