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Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien

By Michael Fox

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030481339, 9783030481346
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-48134-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3589932 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XIV, 250\260
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Literature; Medieval Literature; Classical and Ant

Description

Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.

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