TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lorden,Jennifer A.
TI  - Forms of devotion in early English poetry: the poetics of feeling 
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval literature
SN  - 9781009390279 (ebook)
AV  - PR217 .L67 2023
U1  - 829/.1009 23/eng/20230803
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Devotional poetry, English
KW  - Devotion in literature
KW  - Affect (Psychology) in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Oct 2023)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009390279
ER  -