{"product_id":"the-heat-of-beowulf-9781526150585","title":"The Heat of Beowulf","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe heat of Beowulf\u003c\/i\u003e develops a new approach to the aesthetics of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003eby engaging with the work of twentieth-century poets Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer, whose avant-garde poetics were informed by a serious encounter with the poem in the seminar of medievalist Arthur G. Brodeur. By considering Blaser’s and Spicer’s poetics as they were shaped by their encounter with \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, the book is able to open up questions about the non-representational poetics of the poem, rebooting a mid-century approach to aesthetics on a new critical trajectory. The book considers the poem’s aesthetics through relationship translation theory, as well as early medieval discourses of sensory-affective experience and twentieth-century phenomenology. \u003ci\u003eThe heat of Beowulf\u003c\/i\u003e reexamines the scholarship on Old English poetics from the mid-twentieth century as it intersected with post-war avant-garde poetics, and how understanding these critical histories can reshape how we read \u003ci\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/i\u003enow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: translative comparative poetics \u003cbr\u003e1 The aesthetics of Beowulf in the middle of the twentieth century \u003cbr\u003e2 ‘Heat’, early medieval aesthetics, and multisensory complexion in Beowulf \u003cbr\u003e3 The heat of earmsceapen style: translatability and compound diction \u003cbr\u003e4 ‘Real cliffs’: variation and lexical kinetics \u003cbr\u003e5 Narrating heat in a hot world \u003cbr\u003eAfterword \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: catalog of ‘fire’ and ‘heat’ words in Beowulf \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041015628119,"sku":"9781526150585","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526150585.jpg?v=1750948606","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-heat-of-beowulf-9781526150585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}