Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Roberta Frank’s Publications, 1970–present x
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Seasons
7. Weathering Time in the Wanderer 15
8. Beowulf as Anti-Virgilian World Literature Archaeology, Ekphrasis, and Epic 37
9. A Portrait of the Translator as Grendel’s Mother The Postcolonial Feminist Polyphony of Meghan Purvis’s Beowulf 59
10. Part 2. Engines
11. Light Verse in Anglo-Saxon England 85
12. The Paris Psalter and English Literary History 107
13. Generative Form 135
14. Kennings and Things: Towards an Object-Oriented Skaldic Poetics 161
15. Part 3. Discordance
16. Lydgate’s Missing “Ballade” and the Bibliographical Imaginary 191
17. Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry 215
18. “Gehyre se ðe wille”: Sonic Worlds in Old Testament Poetry 237
19. Notes on Contributors 261
20. Index 263