Structuring spaces
Subtitle: oral poetics and architecture in early medieval England
By: Lori Ann Garner
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780268029807
Subjects: Architecture and literature; Architecture in literature; History and criticism; English poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward an architectural oral poetics. Oral tradition and vernacular architecture; title: From structure to meaning in Old English verse; title: Architectural landscape of Old English verse. Role of architecture in verse translations; title: Architectural metaphor and metonymy; title: (Re)constructions of memory; title: Post-conquest developments and continuations. Architectural and poetic transitions; title: Poetics of built space in Middle English narrative verse; title: Afterword: modern encounters with Anglo-Saxon spaces.