On Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. On Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction 1
5. 1. Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith 24
6. 2. Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle 43
7. 3. Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style 64
8. 4. Beowulf and the Strange Necessity of Beauty 81
9. 5. ‘Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness’: Latin Prayer and Old English Liturgical Poetry 101
10. 6. Survival of the Most Pleasing: A Meme-Based Approach to Aesthetic Selection 114
11. 7. Hunting the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic in Large Forms: A Möbian Quest 135
12. 8. Structural and Affective Relations in The Dream of the Rood: Harmonic Proportion and a Fibonacci-Type Commodulation 161
13. 9. Beowulf and Boethius on Beauty and Truth 176
14. 10. The Subject of Language: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Aesthetics of Old English Poetry 209
15. 11. The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire 227
16. 12. ‘The Fall of King Hæðcyn’: Or, Mimesis 4a, the Chapter Auerbach Never Wrote 247
17. Contributors 267
18. Works Cited 269
19. Index 291
20. Backmatter 301