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Author:   Mary C. Olson ,  Mary C Olson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415803687

ISBN 10:   0415803683
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   01 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE -- Graphic Signification -- Perception and Corwepnun -- Potency of Images and Words -- Modes of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Structure in the Graphic Field -- Contexts -- CHAPTER TWO -- Inner Space, Outer Space, Graphic Space: Words and Picture; in Anglo-Saxon Culture -- The Print-culture Bias -- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes toward Scribes, Illustrators, and the Visual -- Anglo-Saxon Readers and Writers -- Anglo-Saxon Artisans -- Image Veneration -- Anglo-Saxon Illustrated hooks -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Spatial Models -- Images of Time -- Time and Space on the Manuscript Page -- CHAPTER THREE -- The Reading Subject and the Devotional Text: The Harley Psalter -- The Manuscript -- The Psalms in Anglo-Saxon Life -- Purpose of the Harley Psalter -- Psalm 33 -- Psalm I -- Psalm 113 -- Patterns of Relationship: Cosmic Space -- Patterns of Identification: Schematizarion and the Representation of Xmen -- The Political Nature of the Psalter -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: More on Metaphor -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Narratise Time in Graphic Space: The Illustrated Hexateuch -- The stanuscript -- Patterns of Identification: Schemata -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Metaphoric Tropes -- Patterns of Relationship: Movement in Narrative Space -- Spatial Time -- Allegorical lime -- CHAPTER FIVBE -- My Monster, Myself: The Mantels of the Last -- The Manuscript -- The Monstrous Races -- Patterns of Ideiuification: Schematic Monsters -- Patterns of Interaction and Substitution: Dog-Ants and Valkyry-eyed Beasts -- Patterns of Relationship: Occupying the Framed Space -- CHAPTER SIX -- Marginal Portraits and the Fiction of Orality: -- The Ellesmere Manuscript -- Changes in the Making and Reading of Texts Since the Eleventh Century -- Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales -- Patterns of Relationship: Page Layout and the Reader -- Modes of Identification: Schemata and Discursive Detail -- Patterns of Substitution and Interaction: Metonymic Focus on Orality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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