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Riddles, English (Old) --- English poetry --- Riddles, Latin --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- Latin riddles --- History and criticism.
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"Examines the Old English riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book manuscript, with particular attention to their relationship to larger traditions of literary and traditional riddling"--Provided by publisher.
Riddles in literature. --- Riddles, English (Old) --- English poetry --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- History and criticism. --- Exeter book. --- Codex exoniensis --- Exeterbuch --- Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501
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In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.
English poetry --- Riddles, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry
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Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
Riddles, English (Old) --- English poetry --- Riddles, Latin --- Riddles in literature. --- Latin riddles --- Anglo-Saxon riddles --- English riddles, Old --- Old English riddles --- Riddles, Anglo-Saxon --- Riddles, Old English --- History and criticism. --- Exeter book. --- Codex exoniensis --- Exeterbuch --- Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501
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Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping and binding the physical world in which it lives. The riddles depict master and craftsman and use the familiar human world as a point of orientation within a vast, overwhelming cosmos. But the riddles also offer an eco-centric perspective, one that considers the natural origins of man-made products and the personal plight of useful human resources. This study offers fresh insights into the collection, investigating humanity's interaction with, and attitudes towards, the rest of the created world. Drawing on the principles of eco-criticism and eco-theology, the study considers the cultural and biblical influences on the depiction of nature in the collection, arguing that the texts engage with post-lapsarian issues of exploitation, suffering and mastery. Depictions of marginalised perspectives of sentient and non-sentient beings, such as trees, ore and oxen, are not just characteristic of the riddle genre, but are actively used to explore the point of view of the natural world and the impact humanity has on its non-human inhabitants. The author not only explores the riddles' resistance to anthropocentrism, but challenges our own tendency to read these enigmas from a human-centred perspective. Corinne Dale gained her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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