Beowulf : a poem / Andrew Scheil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew Scheil., author.

Series:

Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)

Past imperfect

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beowulf--Poetry.

Beowulf.

Criticism--Medieval.

Criticism.

Mythology--Folklore.

Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022

Place of Publication:

Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. 2022

System Details:

text file HTML/PDF

Summary:

Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read 'Beowulf'? This book presents a passionate literary argument for 'Beowulf' as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised 'Beowulf' as "a work of the greatest imaginative vitality": how is that true? The poem's current scholarly obsessions and its popular reception have obscured the fact that this untitled and anonymous 3182-line poem from Anglo-Saxon England is a powerful and enduring work of world literature. 'Beowulf' is an early medieval exercise in humanism: it dramatizes, in varied and complex ways, the conflict between human autonomy and the "mind-forg'd manacles" of the world. The poem is as relevant and moving to any reader today as it was during the early Middle Ages. This book serves both as an invitation and introduction to the poem as well as an intervention in its current scholarly context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Doubt

Chapter 2. Contingency

Chapter 3. Tragedy

Chapter 4. Art and the Cunning of Form

Conclusion

Further Reading

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2022).

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Scheil, Andrew Beowulf--A Poem

ISBN:

1-64189-393-1

1-64189-930-1

1-64189-392-3

OCLC:

1291266980