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  1. The aesthetics of nostalgia
    historical representation in Old English verse
    Author: Trilling, Renée R.
    Published: c2009 (2010)
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1442697938; 9781442697935
    RVK Categories: HH 1229
    Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry / Old English; History in literature; Literature and history; Nostalgia in literature; English poetry; Literature and history; Nostalgia in literature; History in literature; Altenglisch; Versdichtung; Nostalgie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 296 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index

    Introduction. Form of History -- 1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry -- 2. In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse -- 3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict -- 4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of History -- Conclusion: The Past in the Present

    Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period