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Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 1843840294
This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.
Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253206391
Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816077940
Provides a biography of Tolkien, entries on all his novels, stories, and poems, his published scholarly essays and lectures, important posthumously published works, and entries on related people, places, and topics.
Author : Robert E. Bjork,John D. Niles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803261500
The most revered work composed in Old English,Beowulfis one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience,A Beowulf Handbookwill be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own research. In its clear and comprehensive treatment of the poem and its scholarship, this book will prove an indispensable guide to readers and specialists for many years to come.
Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802085830
In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.
Author : Tara Stubbs,Doug Haynes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317446422
This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace perceptions of American exceptionalism with broader notions of Atlanticism, transnationalism, world-system, and trans-localism as each has redefined the US and the world more generally. This collection shows how the remapping of America in terms of global networks, and as a set of particular localities, or even glocalities, now plays out in Americanist scholarship, reflecting on the critical consequences of the spatial turn in American literary and cultural studies. Spanning twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry, fiction, memoir, visual art, publishing, and television, and locating the US in Caribbean, African, Asian, European, and other contexts, this volume argues for a re-modelling of American-ness with the transnational as part of its innate rhetoric. It includes discussions of travel, migration, disease, media, globalization, and countless other examples of inflowing. Essays focus on subjects tracing the contemporary contours of the transnational, such as the role of the US in the rise of the global novel, the impact of Caribbean history on American thought (and vice versa), transatlantic cultural and philosophical genealogies and correspondences, and the exchanges between the poetics of American space and those of other world spaces. Asking questions about the way the American eye has traversed and consumed the objects and cultures of the world, but how that world is resistant, this volume will make an important contribution to American and Transatlantic literary studies.
Author : Michael D. J. Bintley,Thomas J. T. Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783270088
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.
Author : Nicky Raven
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763636479
A modern, illustrated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.
Author : Janie Steen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442691308
While there is little evidence of formal rhetorical instruction in Anglo-Saxon England, traditional Old English poetry clearly shows the influence of Latin rhetoric. Verse and Virtuosity demonstrates how Old English poets imitated and adapted the methods of Latin literature, and, in particular, the works of the Christian Latin authors they had studied at school. It is the first full-length study to look specifically at what Old English poets working in a Latinate milieu attempted to do with the schemes and figures they found in their sources. Janie Steen argues that, far from sterile imitation, the inventiveness of Old English poets coupled with the constraints of vernacular verse produced a vital and markedly different kind of poetry. Highlighting a selection of Old English poetic translations of Latin texts, she considers how the translators responded to the challenge of adaptation, and shows how the most accomplished, such as Cynewulf, absorb Latin rhetoric into their own style and blend the two traditions into verse of great virtuosity. With its wide-ranging discussion of texts and rhetorical figures, this book can serve as an introduction to Old English poetic composition and style. Verse and Virtuosity, will be of considerable interest to Anglo-Saxonists, linguists, and those studying rhetorical traditions.
Author : Jodi-Anne George
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137098016
Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries. This Reader's Guide provides a much-needed overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism, moving from 18th century reactions to 21st century responses. Jodi-Ann George: - Charts the changes in critical trends and theoretical approaches applied to the poem. - Includes discussion of J. R. R. Tolkein's pioneering 1936 lecture on Beowulf , and Seamus Heaney's recent translation. - Analyses Beowulf in popular culture, addressing the poem's life in film versions, graphic novels, music and comics. Clear and engaging, this is an indispensable introductory guide to a widely-studied and enigmatic work which continues to fascinate readers everywhere.
Author : Elise Louviot
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843844341
A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry.
Author : Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781793623461
A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include successful productions such as the Back to the Future trilogy (1985-90), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000) and The Polar Express (2004), but also lesser known films such as I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Allied (2015). Most of Zemeckis’ major productions were not only successful when they were first released but continue to enjoy popularity—with critics and fans alike—even today. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Zemeckisʼ works and addresses the different approaches: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Zemeckisʼ oeuvre, which includes nineteen films. Contrary to the few volumes published in the past on the subject, the chapters in this volume offer specific case studies that have been previously ignored (or only partially mentioned) by other scholars. A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a great variety of interdisciplinary approaches to Zemeckis’ films, illuminating, re-reading and/or interpreting for the first time the entire career of the director, from his first films to the most recent ones.
Author : Kaifan Yang
Publisher : utzverlag GmbH
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783831646852
The book examines the diachronic change of time perception throughout Anglo-Saxon England, with the conversion as a turning point. It draws evidence from a variety of sources, in particular from a close reading of Bede’s historical writings and his treatises on time, from Old English poetry, especially The Dream of the Rood, The Phoenix, The Wanderer, Beowulf, The Ruin, Deor, from the literature of the Alfredian period, and from the lexical and statistical analysis of Old English time words. It offers insights into the complexity of time in the Anglo-Saxon context, and shows how the change of time can help to understand the conceptual system of the Anglo-Saxons.
Author : Ruth A. Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0983181004
A Companion to Beowulf is a guide to the ancient epic poem for students and general readers. The reader learns about the famous manuscript and its language, the poem's plot, and the religious and cultural background of the story. The book serves as a bridge to more advanced scholarship. It was first published by Greenwood Press in 2005 as a hardcover volume.
Author : Steven J. A. Breeze
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781843846451
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.
