TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cavell,Megan
TI  - Weaving Words and Binding Bodies: The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature 
T2  - Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
SN  - 9781442637221
U1  - 829/.09357 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Figures of speech in literature
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Editions --; Construction and Constriction: Introducing Human Experience in Old English Poetry --; Part I. Webs and Rings: Experiencing Objects --; 1. The Material Context of Weaving --; 2. The Woven Mail-Coat --; 3. The Material Context of Structural Binding --; Part II. Fetters and Chains: Experiencing Bondage --; 4. Binding in Nature --; 5. Imprisonment and Hell --; 6. Slavery and Servitude --; Part III. Patterns and Nets: Experiencing the Internal and the Abstract --; 7. The Body and Mind --; 8. Language and Knowledge --; 9. Creation, Magic, and Fate --; 10. Peace --; Weaving and Binding: Conclusions on Human Experience and World View --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts.Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertextual analysis and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the poetry of Cynewulf, and other key texts. Megan Cavell highlights the prominent use of weaving and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on important tropes such as the lord-retainer “bond” and the gendered role of “peace-weaving” in Anglo-Saxon society. Through the analysis of metrical, rhetorical, and linguistic features and canonical and neglected texts in a wide range of genres, Weaving Words and Binding Bodies makes an important contribution to the ongoing study of Anglo-Saxon poetics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624894
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442624894
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442624894/original
ER  -