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"One can emend a mutilated text": Auden's The Orators and the Old English Exeter Book

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Date
2002
Author
Jones, Chris
Keywords
Auden
Orators
Exeter Book
Old English
Anglo-Saxon
Poetry
Gifts of Men
Fortunes of Men
Maxims
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Abstract
This article argues that Book I of Auden's 1931 work 'The Orators' does not merely allude to poems in the Old English Exeter Book as source material, but that it participates in a medievalist model of textual production. Auden's poem performs acts analogous to those such as 'compliatio' and 'ordinatio', and deliberately misrepresents and distorts its source texts even as it alludes to them in order to make a point about the transmission and corruption of canonical texts. In addition, some source material is identified here for the first time.
Citation
Jones, C. (2002). '"One can emend a mutilated text": Auden's The Orators and the Old English Exeter Book.' TEXT: An interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 15: 261-275
ISSN
0736-3974
Type
Journal article
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  • English Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/647

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