Mortal forms : affect and temporality in early English poetry / Evelyn Reynolds.

Author/creator Reynolds, Evelyn R. author.
Format Book
PublicationColumbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2026]
Copyright Date©2026
Description202 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesInterventions: new studies in medieval culture
Interventions: new studies in medieval culture http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/94744044-d9b1-2d8c-b76a-821c93388a7b
Contents The vanishing world : defining a poetics of transience -- The vanishing self : dynamism, stasis, and denial -- The vanishing eternal : representing divine mortality -- Beyond transience : immanent eternity.
Abstract "Theorizes how medieval English poetic forms, in works such as Beowulf, The Wanderer, Piers Plowman, and Pearl, communicate the unspeakable (grief, pain, eternity), revealing previously unrecognized commonalities among Old and Middle English poems and connecting medieval poetics to modern aesthetic theories regarding the limits of representation"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
LCCN 2025044778
ISBN9780814216064
ISBN0814216064 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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