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Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien/ by Michael Fox.
Author:	Fox, Michael.
Description:	XIV, 250 p. 2 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48134-6
ISBN:	9783030481346

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien
Fox, Michael.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien[electronic resource] /by Michael Fox. - 1st ed. 2020. - XIV, 250 p. 2 illus.online resource.

1. Chapter 1: Beowulf and Formula -- 2. Chapter 2: The Half-Line Formula: weox under wolcnum (8a) -- 3. Chapter 3: The Fitt Formula: Genesis and Fitt 1 -- 4. Chapter 4: The Digressive Formula: The Sigemund-Heremod Digression -- 5. Chapter 5: The Folktale Formula: Beowulf and Örvar-Odds saga -- 6. Chapter 6: The Formula Reformulated: Sellic Spell and The Hobbit -- 7. Conclusion.

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.

ISBN: 9783030481346

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-48134-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

953228
Literature, Medieval.

LC Class. No.: PN661-694

Dewey Class. No.: 809.02

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