Institute for Medieval Studies
IMC 2015 Session
Session | 1701 |
Title | Riddling in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond, III: Marvellous Metaphors |
Date/Time | Thursday 9 July 2015: 14.15-15.45 |
Sponsor | The Riddle Ages: An Anglo-Saxon Riddle Blog |
Organiser | Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham |
Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London | |
Moderator/Chair | Pirkko Koppinen, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London |
Paper 1701-a | 'Wundor' and 'Wrætlice': Wondrous Wordplay in the Old English Riddles (Language: English) Sharon Rhodes, Independent Scholar, Rochester Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1701-b | Warriors and Their Battle Gear: Conceptual Blending in Riddles 5, 17, and 20 of the Exeter Book (Language: English) Karin Olsen, Department of English Language & Culture, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Rhetoric |
Paper 1701-c | Enigmatic Discourses in Riddle 49 (and Another New Solution) (Language: English) Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | Session III interrogates literary techniques employed by a range of the Exeter Book Riddles, including Riddles 5, 17, 20, 44, and 49, focusing in particular on metaphor. These techniques range from the use of high poetic language to defamiliarise the familiar, to conceptual blending, to the deliberately deceptive deployment of familiar discourses. Together these papers reveal the rhetorical sophistication of these apparently casual, humorous texts and thus justify the serious issues that have been raised in all three of the sessions. |