Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse
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Borrowed Objects and the Art of Poetry : Spolia in Old English Verse
This study uses examinations of Exeter riddles, Old English religious verse and Beowulf to formulate the poetics of spolia - creative transformations of martial and architectural plunder serving to signal metatextual reflection.