Beowulf - The Critical Heritage

This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf, including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS, EDITORIAL PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, APPENDIX A: Key to references to Thorkelin’s edition, APPENDIX B: A note on line numbers, Bibliography, Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tom Shippey holds the Alter J. Ong S.J. Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University. He has published repeatedly on Beowulf and Old English peotry generally. His colleague Professor Andreas Haarder published the groundbreaking study Beowulf: the Appeal of a Poem (1975).

Zusammenfassung

This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf, including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish.

Zusatztext

'The array of commentary presented in this volume provides an interesting conspectus of writings on Beowulf' - Fred C. Robinson, Yale University

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andreas Shippey Haarder
• Mitarbeit: Andreas Haarder (Herausgeber), Haarder Andreas (Herausgeber), T A Shippey (Herausgeber), T. A. Shippey (Herausgeber), Shippey T. A. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781138009103
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00910-3
• Seiten: 616
• Serie: Critical Heritage
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik > Lyrik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Lexika, Enzyklopädien; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, REFERENCE / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval