Beowulf And The Critics

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056206090

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Beowulf and the Critics by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

The most important essay in the history of Beowulf scholarship, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" has been much studied and discussed. But scholars of both Beowulf and Tolkien have to this point been unaware that Tolkien's essay was a redaction of a much longer and more substantial work, Beowulf and the critics, which Tolkien wrote in the 1930s and probably delivered as a series of Oxford lectures. This critical edition of Beowulf and the critics presents both unpublished versions of Tolkien's lecture, each substantially different from the other and from the final, published essay. The edition included a description of the manuscript, complete textual and explanatory notes, and a detailed critical introduction that explains the place of Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon scholarship both in the history of Beowulf scholarship and in literary history.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : UCR:31210000253185

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Beowulf by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

Author : Lewis E. Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268170533

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The Anthology of Beowulf Criticism by Lewis E. Nicholson Pdf

Was the Beowulf-poet a Christian or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The eighteen contribution to the anthology are arranged chronologically according to the date of the criticism's first publication. The outstanding scholars whose critical writing is presented here range from the turn-of-the-century critic F. A. Blackburn through the Englishman J. R. R. Tolkien to such contemporaries as Kemp Malone, Morton Bloomfield, and R. E. Kaske. Nearly every aspect of the Beowulf is discussed and controverted in terms of literary analysis. Old English, Old Norse, Latin, and Old French passages are translated in the accompanying text as an aid to undergraduate students meeting Beowulf for the first time.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X000824775

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The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780007375905

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The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien Pdf

The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544442788

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Beowulf by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

Author : Lewis E. Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046361989

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An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism by Lewis E. Nicholson Pdf

An anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The contributions to this anthology are arranged chronologicall according to the date of the criticism's first publication.

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:800131421

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Beowulf by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253206391

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Interpretations of Beowulf by Robert D. Fulk Pdf

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 : Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 0520015126

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The Art of Beowulf by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur Pdf

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.

Author : Michael D. C. Drout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415969420

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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia by Michael D. C. Drout Pdf

A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements - including his translations of medieval texts - teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations art and illustrations characters in Tolkien's work critical history and scholarship influence of Tolkien languages biography literary sources literature creatures and peoples of Middle-earth objects in Tolkien's work places in Tolkien's work reception of Tolkien medieval scholars scholarship by Tolkien medieval literature stylistic elements themes in Tolkien's works theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers Tolkien's contemporary history and culture works of literature

Author : Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel
Publisher : ARC Reference
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 164189427X

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Classic Readings on Monster Theory by Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel Pdf

Companion volumes Classic Readings on Monster Theoryand Primary Sources on Monstersgather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters can show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous and aims to provide interpretive tools and strategies for students to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume, which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.

Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429880360

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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film by Kathleen Forni Pdf

Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.

Author : R. W. Chambers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547027676

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Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers Pdf

After nearly a hundred years, this book is still one of the most comprehensive studies of the epic poem "Beowulf." The author of this book, Wilson Chambers, gives a detailed explanation of the poem and provides a reader with an interesting backstory about the main characters.

Author : M. D. C. Drout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0866981845

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Leather-Beowulf and Critics-2Nd Ed. Cb by M. D. C. Drout Pdf