The Exeter Book: Riddles and Poems

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

William F. Klein

Organizer Affiliation

Kenyon College

Presider Name

Laurie A. Finke

Presider Affiliation

Kenyon College

Paper Title 1

John D. Niles and Dramatic Play in the Exeter Book

Presenter 1 Name

William F. Klein

Paper Title 2

Exeter Riddle 39 and the Quest for Certainty

Presenter 2 Name

Thomas P. Klein

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Idaho State Univ.

Paper Title 3

The Poems in the Riddle: Reading the Metaphor of Exeter Riddle 95

Presenter 3 Name

A. Arwen Taylor

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

Start Date

15-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 205

Description

All three of these papers deal with different aspects of questions raised by recent books on the Exeter Book Riddles, especially John Niles Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts (2006), Dieter BitterliSay What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition/ (2009); and Patrick J. MurphyUnriddling the Exeter Riddles (2011)

William F. Klein