Title Forms of devotion in early English poetry : the poetics of feeling / Jennifer A. Lorden

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 123 Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 123. Contents Introduction -- Displaced passions: sympathy and suffering in poems on Christ and the saints -- Paradise and the problem of beauty in Old English poetry -- Poetics at the end of the world -- The poetics of the speaking soul from Old to Middle English -- Luue and lyric in England across the Conquest -- Epilogue Summary Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of deeply-felt religious devotion centuries before it is commonly said to arise. Her ground-breaking study establishes the hybrid poetics that embodied its form for medieval readers, while obscuring it from modern scholars. Working across the divide between Old and Middle English, she shows how conventions of earlier English poetry recombine with new literary conventions after the Norman Conquest. These new conventions -- for example, love lyric repurposed as devotional song -- created hybrid aesthetics more familiar to modern scholars. She argues that this aesthetic, as much as changing devotional practice, rendered later affective piety recognizable in a way that earlier affective devotional conventions were not. Forms of Devotion reconsiders the roots and branches of poetic topoi, revising commonplaces of literary and religious history."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Jennifer A. Lorden is an Assistant Professor of English at William & Mary Print version record Subject English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Devotional poetry, English -- History and criticism Devotion in literature. Affect (Psychology) in literature. Affect (Psychology) in literature Devotion in literature Devotional poetry, English English poetry -- Middle English English poetry -- Old English Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009390279 1009390279

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