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Absorption and Denial : = Toward an Aesthetics of Ends in Old and Middle English Poetry.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Absorption and Denial :/
Reminder of title:	Toward an Aesthetics of Ends in Old and Middle English Poetry.
Author:	Reynolds, Evelyn.
Description:	1 online resource (346 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369744804

Absorption and Denial : = Toward an Aesthetics of Ends in Old and Middle English Poetry.
Reynolds, Evelyn.

Absorption and Denial :Toward an Aesthetics of Ends in Old and Middle English Poetry. - 1 online resource (346 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation intervenes in the critical practice of reading Old and Middle English transience poems with twin assumptions. These assumptions are, first, that through images of loss, these poems generate sympathy, and, second, that to teach morality, they draw readers along the journey from birth to death. "Absorption and Denial" instead argues that medieval English transience poems rupture readers' ability to feel and picture, just as much as they elicit it. This suspends readers in a dynamic stillness that undercuts mortality's movement. By attending to this dynamic stillness in poems across the long Middle Ages, my dissertation breaks apart the scholarly binaries that define these texts: Old versus Middle English, life's worthlessness versus life's value, divine authority versus affective piety, stasis versus movement.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369744804Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Absorption and Denial : = Toward an Aesthetics of Ends in Old and Middle English Poetry.
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520 $a This dissertation intervenes in the critical practice of reading Old and Middle English transience poems with twin assumptions. These assumptions are, first, that through images of loss, these poems generate sympathy, and, second, that to teach morality, they draw readers along the journey from birth to death. "Absorption and Denial" instead argues that medieval English transience poems rupture readers' ability to feel and picture, just as much as they elicit it. This suspends readers in a dynamic stillness that undercuts mortality's movement. By attending to this dynamic stillness in poems across the long Middle Ages, my dissertation breaks apart the scholarly binaries that define these texts: Old versus Middle English, life's worthlessness versus life's value, divine authority versus affective piety, stasis versus movement.
520 $a For example, according to critics, the lyric "Wen the turuf is thi tuur" depicts death to frighten audiences into repentance. Though "Wen the turuf" ostensibly moves from life to death, its first line actually starts with death, "turf," then moves to life, "tower." Throughout, it interconnects death and life with alliteration, assonance, and parallel syntax. One can move forward -- from life to death -- and even backward -- from death to life -- but the poem traps its audience in mortality's loop. Such mirroring renders readers' desire for moral change meaningless since life on earth only foreshadows existence in the grave.
520 $a Beginning with poems like "Wen the turuf" in Chapters 1 and 2, "Absorption and Denial" develops the aesthetic of dynamic stillness thematically. Chapter 3 constellates depictions of Christ's death across the long Middle Ages. Chapter 4 concludes the project with medieval English representations of heaven, where dynamic stillness does more than console for life's losses. Here, forms create a stillness that suspends readers in an eternity that comes alive in earthly, human language. Over its course, "Absorption and Denial" investigates how poetic language works on imagination and feeling, and how medieval aesthetics grapple with mortality. By using form's cross-currents to suspend audiences between involvement in and separation from depictions of death, early English poems trace the limits of imagination and language as a stay against transience.
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