Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture

James Paz

Original title: Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture

earliest edition we have, 2017 Manchester University Press, 2017 272 pages

"Anglo-Saxon?things? could talk. Nonhuman voices leap out from the Exeter Book Riddles, telling us how they were made or how they behave. The Franks Casket is a box of bone that alludes to its former fate as a whale that swam aground onto the shingle, and the Ruthwell monument is a stone column that speaks as if it were living wood, or a wounded body. In this book, James Paz uncovers the voice and agency that these n...

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Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture edition · 2017 · Manchester University Press · 272 pages · 9781526101105
Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture edition · 2017 · Manchester University Press · 9781526116000
Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture edition · Manchester University Press · 248 pages · 9781526115997

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