The Beowulf Reader

Basic Readings
Herausgeber: Baker, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780815336662
• ISBN-10: 0815336667
• Artikelnr.: 21250715

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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