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

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ISBN: 3030481336
ISBN 13: 9783030481339
Autor: Fox, Michael
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 250 S., 2 s/w Illustr., 250 p. 2 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

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.

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Beschreibung

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds Saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process which 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.

Autorenporträt

Michael Fox is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has published on modern rhetoric, medieval Latin, and Old English.

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