{"product_id":"mortal-forms-affect-and-temporality-in-early-english-poetry-hardcover","title":"Mortal Forms: Affect and Temporality in Early English Poetry - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEvelyn Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMortal Forms, \u003c\/i\u003e Evelyn Reynolds introduces the concept of the \"absorption-denial dynamic\" to explore how medieval English poetic forms simultaneously invite and resist imaginative and affective engagement. She thus offers a model for understanding how language engages audiences with that which is beyond language. This new methodology helps us understand how poetic forms communicate the unspeakable--especially of loss and grief, pain and disgust, joy and eternity--without circumscribing it. Connecting medieval English poetics to modern aesthetic theory and broader questions about the limits of representation, Reynolds considers Old and Middle English poems alongside one another and reads texts achronologically, thus revising standard histories of English poetics that insist on dramatic change from Old to Middle English. Overall, Reynolds deftly deploys her innovative theoretical framework to attend to how medieval poems, from \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman, \u003c\/i\u003e navigate the limits of the unspeakable--and thus to develop an understanding of poetics that can enrich our capacity to meet the losses of our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Reynolds holds a PhD in medieval English literature and an MFA in poetry from Indiana University. She has published on medieval texts from \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e to Margery Kempe. Her research interests include Old and Middle English literature, poetry and poetics, ecocriticism, and religious studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337030361453,"sku":"9780814216064","price":186.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/28m14hnS399780814216064.webp?v=1778922888","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/mortal-forms-affect-and-temporality-in-early-english-poetry-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}