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

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Michael Fox

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

September 23rd, 2021

Author

Michael Fox

Pages

250

Edition

1st ed. 2020

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 250 p. 2 illus.

ISBN-13

9783030481360

Product ID

35320355

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