| Description |
1 online resource (605 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
This monograph is the first book-length comprehensive textual analysis of the Beowulf saga as an Indo-European epic. It provides a detailed reading of the epic in conjunction with ancient legal and cultural practices that allow for a new understanding of this classic work. This theoretical resource offers insights valuable to the fields of comparative mythology, medieval literature and Anglo-Saxon studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- Æschere's death and the problem of Hroǒgar -- Symbolic politics -- Family charisma -- Rhetoric in an open text -- Allusion: the semiotics of digression -- Battlefield typescenes -- Wyrd, ellen, geuyld, and the heroic moment -- The dragon's treasure. |
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Beowulf.
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Beowulf. (OCoLC)fst01356023
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Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
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Mythology in literature.
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Mythology, Indo-European -- Comparative studies.
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
(OCoLC)fst01735633
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Epic poetry, English (Old) (OCoLC)fst00913869
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Mythology in literature. (OCoLC)fst01031717
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Mythology, Indo-European. (OCoLC)fst01031832
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| Genre/Form |
Comparative studies. (OCoLC)fst01423767
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773437555 |
| ISBN |
9780773421691 (ebook) |
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