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

Michael Fox author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:22nd Sep '20

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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 Örvar-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.


ISBN: 9783030481339

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 473g

250 pages

1st ed. 2020