The riddle of creation
Subtitle: metaphor structures in Old English poetry
By: Ruth Wehlau.
Series: Studies in the humanities ;; v. 24; Studies in the humanities (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 24.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.; Christian poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.; Riddles, English (Old) -- History and criticism.; Cosmology, Medieval, in literature.; Creation in literature.; Rhetoric, Medieval.; God in literature.; Metaphor.
Description: The Creation is one of the most important themes in Old English poetry. The Riddle of Creation approaches the Creation through its metaphors, focussing especially on images relating to architecture and the body. These are shown to form organized structures extending throughout the poetry, structures which are ironically inverted in the Exeter Book riddles.

Overall, these metaphors reveal not only Anglo-Saxon notions about the created world, but fundamental concepts about the nature of poetic creation as well.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-153) and index.