The cultural world in Beowulf /
Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in a European vernacular language. It dramatizes behaviour in a complex social world - a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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Colección: | Anthropological horizons.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1 Feud Settlements in Beowulf
- 2 The Temporal World in Beowulf
- 3 The Jural World in Beowulf
- 4 The Economy of Honour in Beowulf
- 5 The Psychological World in Beowulf
- Conclusion.