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The Riddle of Beauty: The Aesthetics of Wrætlic in Old English Verse

RAMEY, PETER

Modern philology, 2017-02, Vol.114 (3), p.457-481 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The Riddle of Beauty: The Aesthetics of Wrætlic in Old English Verse
Autor: RAMEY, PETER
Assuntos: Aesthetics ; English language ; Literary criticism ; Literary theory ; Middle Ages ; Philology ; Scarry, Elaine ; Writers
É parte de: Modern philology, 2017-02, Vol.114 (3), p.457-481
Descrição: Classical aesthetics is thoroughly mimetic; it sees beauty in terms of imitation and representation and defines the beautiful through mathematically inspired categories of ratio, proportion, and symmetry. It places special stress on the place of order within a vast cosmological scheme. In Old English verse, however, exists something closer to the opposite: not imitation but singularity and individual intricacy; not symmetry but strangeness; and not an inducement to pleasure or desire but to awe and even fear. In his exploration of early English aesthetics, Ramey examine the little-noticed word wraetlic, an adjective used in the poetic corpus to single out items of extraordinary craft and beauty.
Editor: Chicago: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Idioma: Inglês

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