Pride and Prodigies : Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript /

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Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orchard, Andy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Heroes in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Pride in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface to the Revised Edition
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I The Beowulf-Manuscript
  • II Psychology and Physicality: the Monsters of Beowulf
  • III The Kin of Cain
  • IV The Liber monstrorum
  • V The Alexander-Legend in Anglo-Saxon England
  • VI Grettir and Grendel Again
  • Postscript
  • Appendices: Texts, Translations, and Sources
  • Introduction
  • I.a The Wonders of the East: Latin Text
  • I.b The Wonders of the East: Old English Text
  • I.c The Wonders of the East: Translation
  • II.a The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Latin Text
  • II.b The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Old English Text
  • II.e The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle: Translation
  • III.a Liber monstrorum: Latin Text
  • III.b Liber monstrorum: Translation
  • III.c Liber monstrorum: Sources and Analogues
  • Bibliography
  • General Index

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