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Beowulf : a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism / translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Norton critical edition
- A Norton critical edition
- Standardized Title:
- Beowulf. English
- Language:
- English
- English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, English (Old).
- Epic poetry, English (Old)--Modernized versions.
- Heroes.
- Scandinavia--In literature.
- Scandinavia.
- Monsters in literature.
- Dragons in literature.
- Scandinavia--Poetry.
- Heroes in literature.
- Monsters--Poetry.
- Monsters.
- Dragons--Poetry.
- Dragons.
- Heroes--Poetry.
- Beowulf.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2002]
- Summary:
- Contains the prose translation of "Beowulf" and provides historical, linguistic, and literary settings, origins of Old English language, and material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies.
- Contents:
- The text of Beowulf.
- Backgrounds and contexts. The Beowulf manuscript ; Tribes and genealogies ; The geography of Beowulf ; The origins of Old English to 800 A.D. / Robert C. Hughes ; Map: The continental homelands of the Germanic invaders ; Map: The English kingdoms at the beginning of the seventh century A.D. ; [Old English prosody and Cædmon's Hymn] / E. Talbot Donaldson.
- Criticism. Appositive style and the theme of Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson ; The Beowulf poet's sense of history / Roberta Frank ; Reconceiving Beowulf: poetry as social praxis / John D. Niles ; Beowulf and the psychology of terror / Michael Lapidge ; "Þæt wæs geomuru ides!" a female stereotype examines / Joyce Hill ; The female mourner at Beowulf's funeral: filling in the blanks/hearing the spaces / Helen Bennett ; The uses of uncertainty: on the dating of Beowulf / Nicholas Howe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).
- ISBN:
- 0393974065
- 9780393974065
- OCLC:
- 46685616
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