Four Funerals in Beowulf - And the Structure of the Poem

Informationen zum Autor Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester Klappentext A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. IntroductionPart I - the Four Funerals2. The first funeral: Scyld Scefing's Ship of Death3. The second funeral: the cremation of Hildeburg's kin4. The third funeral: the Last Survivor's Lament5. The fourth funeral: Beowulf's complex obsequies6. Classicising the pastPart II - The Funerals and the Structure of the Poem7. Rings and fitts8. The funerals and elliptical structures I: the inner funerals as frames9. The funerals and elliptical structures II: the outer structures10. The funerals and elliptical structures III: the funerals as centres11. Three movements and a coda: Beowulf's femininst middleConclusions

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• Authors: Gale Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Owen-Crocker
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780719081217
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8121-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon