The Beowulf Reader - Basic Readings

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction; Beowulf; The Pagan Coloring of Beowulf; Beowulf and the Margins of Literacy; Elements of the Marvellous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence; The Authenticating Voice in Beowulf; The Great Feud: Scriptural History and Strife in Beowulf III; The Germanic Context of the Unferp Episode; Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf; Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's Pride in Old English Hagiography ; The Legacy of Wiglaf: Saving a Wounded Beowulf; The Women of Beowulf: A Context for Interpretation; Kuhn's Laws, Old English Poetry, and the New Philology; On the Dating of Beowulf

About the author

Peter Baker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Deconstruction and theEthical Turn (1995).

Summary

This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Baker (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2000
• EAN: 9780815336662
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3666-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Weight: 600 g
• Series: Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon