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Full-Text Articles in Poetry
Run-Up-The-Hill Windmill, Christopher Croft
A Poem, Molly C. Masich
Parisian Traveler, Amy E. Butcher
Anonymous For Obvious Reasons, Molly C. Masich
Your Eyes, Heather N. Walsh
Mascara Tears, Heather N. Walsh
A Late Night Tribute, Lauren R. Barrett
And They Call It Truth, Jason H. Parker
Rusty Lovers, Molly C. Masich
Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, And The Body In The Old English 'Andreas', Christopher R. Fee
Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, And The Body In The Old English 'Andreas', Christopher R. Fee
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Writing in the Old English Andreas is at once both a productive and a destructive activity. We first become aware of the dangerous power of the written word quite early in the poem, when we learn that the Mermedonians have subverted the normally productive activity of writing into a tool for calculating the execution dates of their prisoners (134-37). Later, the words uttered by the devil to incite the Mermedonians against Andreas illuminate the lexical relationship between the destructive nature of writing and the productive nature of torture in the semiotic context of the poem. Finally, in a sort of …