TY  - GEN
N2  - Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.
AB  - Following the Formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien proposes that Beowulf was composed according to a formula. Michael Fox imagines the process that generated the poem and provides a model for reading it, extending this model to investigate formula in a half-line, a fitt, a digression, and a story-pattern or folktale, including the Old-Norse Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga. Fox also explores how J. R. R. Tolkien used the same formula to write Sellic Spell and The Hobbit. This investigation uncovers relationships between oral and literate composition, between mechanistic composition and author, and between listening and reading audiences, arguing for a contemporary relevance for Beowulf in thinking about the creative process.
T1  - Following the formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien /
AU  - Fox, Michael,
CN  - PR1585
ID  - 944174
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - Repetition in literature.
SN  - 9783030481346
SN  - 3030481344
TI  - Following the formula in Beowulf, Örvar-Odds saga, and Tolkien /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48134-6
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48134-6
ER  -