The Beowulf Reader

Basic Readings
Herausgeber: Baker, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gathering some of the most important studies from the past 25 years of Beowulf scholarship, The Beowulf Reader offers essential insights both to scholars in the field and to readers coming to this Old English literary masterpiece for the first time. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the various approaches that have dominated recent Beowulf studies and illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism, from New Critical formalism to recent trends in critical theory and a resurgent historicism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781138142695
• ISBN-10: 1138142697
• Artikelnr.: 71767361

Autorenporträt

Peter Baker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Deconstruction and theEthical Turn (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Beowulf
The Pagan Coloring of Beowulf
Beowulf and the Margins of Literacy
Elements of the Marvellous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence
The Authenticating Voice in Beowulf
The Great Feud: Scriptural History and Strife in Beowulf III
The Germanic Context of the Unferp Episode
Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf
Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's Pride in Old English Hagiography
The Legacy of Wiglaf: Saving a Wounded Beowulf
The Women of Beowulf: A Context for Interpretation
Kuhn's Laws, Old English Poetry, and the New Philology
On the Dating of Beowulf