Earl R. Anderson ; with a foreword by Mary P. Richards
Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
c2010
iv, 592 p. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- schere's death and the problem of Hrogar -- 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
Comparative literature-- Themes, motives
Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism