Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature – eBook PDF Weaving Words and Binding Bodies, (PDF) features the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertextual study and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the poetry of Cynewulf, and other important texts. Megan Cavell highlights the outstanding use of weaving and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on key tropes such as the lord-retainer “bond” and the gendered role of “peace-weaving” in Anglo-Saxon society. Through the study of metrical, rhetorical, and linguistic features and canonical and ignored texts in...
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies – eBook PDF
