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Anglo-Saxon Memories
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Anglo-Saxon Memories
Yazar:
Cook, Brian, author.
ISBN:
9780438066809
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1 electronic resource (194 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Lindy Brady Committee members: Mary Hayes; Daniel Stout; Nancy Wicker.
Özet:
"Anglo-Saxon Memories" is concerned with the relationship between places and memories. I argue that Anglo-Saxon authors made innovative use of two related rhetorical theories: locational mnemonics and inventional plausibility. The former, often called a "memory palace," uses spatial memory to imagine memories as locatable objects in physical spaces. The latter allows retroactive invention of historical fact so long as it agrees with what might have happened or, sometimes, what should have happened. The prototypical example is the courtroom narrative. Covering genres from grand foundational narratives of social and religious order in Beowulf and Bede's Historia ecclesiatica, to personal histories of love and loss in The Wanderer, Wulf and Eadwacer , and The Wife's Lament, "Anglo-Saxon Memories" focuses on the negotiable relationship between truth and fact. As truths changed, rhetorical practices could refashion facts -- so long as they remained grounded, literally or metaphorically, in a version of how things could have happened.
I begin by arguing that despite the lack of manuscript evidence for classical mnemonics in Anglo-Saxon England, The Ruin and King Alfred's version of Augustine's Soliloquia show that classical mnemonics were in active use. My second chapter confronts traditional readings of The Wanderer by arguing that the poem's elegiac mode results from its use of inventional rhetoric, making the poem's hopelessness a positive and necessary part of its poetic generation. Chapter Three argues that Scribe A of Beowulf purposefully drew Germanic runes in the manuscript to mark metaliterary passages where the poem recasts earlier action in light of a mythic Germanic past. Turning to Anglo-Latin history writing in Chapter Four, I argue that Bede describes an innovative use classical mnemonics: as praxis for erasing the memories of paganism from the minds of the Anglo-Saxons. I conclude by reading the fourteenth century St. Erkenwald as a Middle English innovation on an Anglo-Saxon tradition of riddles about the scriptorium. In short, I demonstrate that the Anglo-Saxons innovated on classical rhetorical techniques to write alternative histories even though there is little extant evidence that the formal study of these techniques was widespread in Anglo-Saxon England.
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School code: 0131
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