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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Interpretations of Beowulf. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1991 (OCoLC)645773464 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
R D Fulk |
ISBN: | 0253324378 9780253324375 0253206391 9780253206398 |
OCLC Number: | 22420987 |
Description: | xix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Wyrd and providence in Anglo-Saxon thought / Bertha S. Phillpotts -- Beowulf : the monsters and the critics / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The oral-formulaic character of Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry / Francis P. Magoun, Jr. -- Variation / Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur -- Beowulf : an allegory of salvation? / M.B. McNamee -- The Christian perspective in Beowulf / Margaret E. Goldsmith -- Geatish history : poetic art and epic quality in Beowulf / Stanley B. Greenfield -- Him sēo wēn gelēah : the design for irony in Grendel's last visit to Heorot / Richard N. Ringler -- The interlace structure of Beowulf / John Leyerle -- The text of fate / Edward B. Irving, Jr. -- The ironic background / T.A. Shippey. Artful avoidance of the useful phrase in Beowulf, The battle of Maldon, and Fates of the apostles / Geoffrey R. Russom -- Tradition and design in Beowulf / Theodore M. Andersson -- Beowulf in literary history / Joseph Harris -- Frame narratives and fictionalization : Beowulf as narrator / Laurence N. De Looze -- Grendels' mother as epic anti-type of the virgin and queen / Jane Chance -- Beowulf 505, 'gehedde', and the pretensions of Unferth / John C. Pope. |
Series Title: | A Midland book, MB 639 |
Responsibility: | edited by R.D. Fulk. |
Abstract:
Brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, this book includes essays that deal with the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, and offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem.
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