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HILL  \nOn the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems  \nUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London  \n© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2010 Toronto Buffalo London [www.utppublishing.com](www.utppublishing.com)  \nPrinted in Canada  \nISBN 978-0-8020-9944-0  \nPrinted on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks.  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication  \nOn the aesthetics of Beowulf and other Old English poems / edited by John M. Hill.  \n(Toronto Anglo-Saxon series)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-8020-9944-0  \n1. English poetry – Old English, ca. 450–1100 – History and criticism.  \n2. Beowulf. 3. Art and literature – England – History – To 1500. 4. Literature  \n– Aesthetics. I. Hill, John M. II. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series PR203 .05 2010 829'.1009 C2009-907359-5  \nUniversity of Toronto Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, in the publication of this book.  \nPublication of this book has been aided by a grant from the U.S. Naval Academy.  \nUniversity of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.  \nUniversity of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) .  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vii  \nOn Aesthetics and Quality: An Introduction 3 john m. hill  \n1 Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith 24 howell d. chickering  \n2 Bind and Loose: Aesthetics and the Word in Old English Law, Charm, and Riddle 43  \ntiffany beechy  \n3 Aesthetic Criteria in Old English Heroic Style 64 geoffrey russom  \n4 Beowulf and the Strange Necessity of Beauty 81 peggy a. knapp  \n5 ‘Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness’: Latin Prayer and Old English Liturgical Poetry 101  \nsarah larratt keefer  \n6 Survival of the Most Pleasing: A Meme-Based Approach to Aesthetic Selection 114  \nmichael d. c. drout  \nvi Contents  \n7 Hunting the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic in Large Forms:  \nA Möbian Quest 135  \nrobert d. stevick  \n8 Structural and Affective Relations in The Dream of the Rood: Harmonic Proportion and a Fibonacci-Type Commodulation 161 john m. hill  \n9 Beowulf and Boethius on Beauty and Truth 176 thomas e. hart  \n10 The Subject of Language: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Aesthetics of Old English Poetry 209  \njanet thormann  \n11 The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire 227 yvette kisor  \n12 ‘The Fall of King Hæðcyn’: Or, Mimesis 4a, the Chapter Auerbach Never Wrote 247  \ntom shippey  \nContributors 267 Works Cited 269 Index 291  \nAcknowledgments  \nI am grateful to the organizers of the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the International Congress on Medieval Studies for opportunities to organize sessions on aesthetics and Old English literature. 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