عنوان

The art of Beowulf.

(Number (ISBN

0520015126

(Number (ISBN

9780520015128

Title Proper

The art of Beowulf.

General Material Designation

[Book]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley,

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1959.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 283 pages

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

The diction of Beowulf -- Variation -- The structure and the unity of Beowulf -- Design for terror -- Setting and action -- Episodes and digressions -- Christian and pagan in Beowulf -- Anticipation, contrast, and irony -- Appendix: -- A. The varieties of poetic appellation -- B. Check-list of compounds formed on the same base-words in Beowulf and in other poems -- C. The limits of variation.

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During the twenty years that have passed since the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous lecture, "Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics," interest in Beowulf as a work of art has increased gratifyingly, and many fine papers have made distinguished contributions to our understanding of the poem as poetry and as heroic narrative. Much more, however, remains to be done. We have still no systematic and sensitive appraisal of the poem later than Walter Morris Hart's Ballad and Epic, no thorough examination of the poet's gifts and powers, of the effects for which he strove and the means he used to achieve them. More than enough remains to occupy a generation of scholars. It is my hope that this book may serve as a kind of prolegomenon to such study. It makes no claim to completeness or finality; it contributes only the convictions and impressions which have been borne in upon me in the course of forty years of study of the poem. - Preface.

Title

Art of Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Beowulf-- Criticism and interpretation.

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Beowulf.

Dragons in literature.

English language-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- Style.

Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.

Heroes in literature.

Monsters in literature.

18.05 English literature.

Beowulf (anoniem)

Dragons in literature.

English language-- Old English-- Style.

Epic poetry, English (Old)

Heroes in literature.

Monsters in literature.

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Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist,1888-1971.

Date of Transaction

20200822114631.0

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