Forms of devotion in early English poetry : the poetics of feeling /
Lorden, Jennifer A., 1986-
Forms of devotion in early English poetry : the poetics of feeling / Jennifer A. Lorden. - 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature . - Cambridge studies in medieval literature. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Oct 2023).
Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of deeply-felt religious devotion centuries before it is commonly said to arise. Her ground-breaking study establishes the hybrid poetics that embodied its form for medieval readers, while obscuring it from modern scholars. Working across the divide between Old and Middle English, she shows how conventions of earlier English poetry recombine with new literary conventions after the Norman Conquest. These new conventions-for example, love lyric repurposed as devotional song-created hybrid aesthetics more familiar to modern scholars. She argues that this aesthetic, as much as changing devotional practice, rendered later affective piety recognizable in a way that earlier affective devotional conventions were not. Forms of Devotion reconsiders the roots and branches of poetic topoi, revising commonplaces of literary and religious history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
9781009390279 (ebook)
English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Devotional poetry, English--History and criticism.
Devotion in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
PR217 / .L67 2023
829/.1009
Forms of devotion in early English poetry : the poetics of feeling / Jennifer A. Lorden. - 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature . - Cambridge studies in medieval literature. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Oct 2023).
Jennifer Lorden reveals the importance of deeply-felt religious devotion centuries before it is commonly said to arise. Her ground-breaking study establishes the hybrid poetics that embodied its form for medieval readers, while obscuring it from modern scholars. Working across the divide between Old and Middle English, she shows how conventions of earlier English poetry recombine with new literary conventions after the Norman Conquest. These new conventions-for example, love lyric repurposed as devotional song-created hybrid aesthetics more familiar to modern scholars. She argues that this aesthetic, as much as changing devotional practice, rendered later affective piety recognizable in a way that earlier affective devotional conventions were not. Forms of Devotion reconsiders the roots and branches of poetic topoi, revising commonplaces of literary and religious history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
9781009390279 (ebook)
English poetry--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Devotional poetry, English--History and criticism.
Devotion in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
PR217 / .L67 2023
829/.1009