"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems /

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The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Shippey, Tom (Contribuidor), Williamson, Craig (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
Temas:
Dragons > Poetry.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > Translations into English.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > History and criticism.
Monsters > Poetry.
Literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Poetry.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Note on Editions
  • Guide to Pronouncing Old English
  • On Translating Old English Poetry
  • BEOWULF
  • Introduction
  • Beowulf
  • OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMS
  • A Note on Genres
  • Heroic or Historical Poems
  • Elegies
  • Selected Exeter Book Riddles
  • Gnomic or Wisdom Poems
  • Religious Poems
  • Appendix A. "Digressions": Battles, Feuds, and Family Strife in Beowulf
  • Appendix B. Genealogies in Beowulf
  • Appendix C. Two Scandinavian Analogues of Beowulf
  • Appendix D. Possible Riddle Solutions
  • Glossary of Proper Names
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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