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

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-48134-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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 Ö
rvar-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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Chapter 1:
Beowulf
and Formula.- 2. Chapter 2: The Half-Line Formula:
weox under wolcnum
(8a).- 3. Chapter 3: The Fitt Formula: Genesis and Fitt 1.- 4. Chapter 4: The Digressive Formula: The Sigemund-Heremod Digression.- 5. Chapter 5: The Folktale Formula:
Beowulf
and
Örvar-Odds saga
.- 6. Chapter 6: The Formula Reformulated:
Sellic Spell
and
The Hobbit
.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Fox
is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has published on modern rhetoric, medieval Latin, and Old English.