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The transmission of Beowulf : language, culture, and scribal behavior /

Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of "Beowulf," Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of uni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neidorf, Leonard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Myth and poetics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • THE TRANSMISSION OF BEOWULF; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword by Gregory Nagy; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1. The Duration of Transmission; 2. The Detection of Scribal Error; 3. Meter and Alliteration; 4. Probabilistic Reasoning; 5. General Prefatory Remarks; 2. Language History; 1. Diachronic Variation; 2. Dialectal Variation; 3. Syntactic Misconstruction; 4. Trivialization; 5. Interpolation; 3. Cultural Change; 1. Obliteration of Personal Names; 2. Obliteration of Ethnic Names; 3. Erroneous Spacing; 4. Scribal Self-Correction.
  • 5. Chronological Significance4. Scribal Behavior; 1. The Lexemic Theory; 2. Competing Theories; 3. Variation in Parallel Texts; 4. The Four Poetic Codices; 5. Theory and Evidence; 5. Conclusion; 1. The Unity of Beowulf; 2. Linguistic Regularities; 3. Methodological Considerations; 4. Textual Criticism; 5. Manuscript Context; Appendix: J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf Textual Criticism; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index of Verses; Index of Subjects.