Spolia -Inflected Poetics of the Old English Andreas

Abstract

Spo/za-Inflected Poetics Old English Andreas by Denis Ferhatovic Throughout this essay, I focus on the spolium, a fragment crosses several boundaries, in order to illuminate the poeti cratic Anglo-Saxon text, the poem now called Andreas. A several literal and metaphorical instances of recycling of ob Ages, on the Continent, and in England, I discuss in detail which animated artifacts appear as both results of and par angel sculpture from a temple set in motion by Jesus and t umn from the Mermedonian dungeon activated by Andrew But it is all too easy to look at the Hampi ruin and fashion only two images of the past. One as a testimonial to imperial grandeur, the oth as a testimonial to the human capacity for d struction. Surely the past is more than a mere fossil? ... Shiv feels a sudden rush of ambition: he would like to ... take this fragment from the medieval past and reconstruct an entire range of possibilities.1