Description:
Structuring Spaces illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within the vernacular verse of early medieval England.
Brief description:
Lori Ann Garner is assistant professor of English at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
Review Quotes:
"In this wide-ranging and lavishly-illustrated study, Lori Garner effectively aligns the established approach of oral poetics with insights from the emerging field of vernacular architecture. From Heorot to Grendel's mere, from the Mermedonian prison of Andreas to the nest of The Phoenix, from the Wife's earth-hall to Holofernes' tent, Garner's sensitive readings of the poetics of built spaces in Old English poetry open up new perspectives on 'conventional' imagery that we only thought we knew how to read." --Charles D. Wright, University of Illinois