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Beowulf : a poem /
Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised Beowulf as ""a work of the greatest imaginative vitality"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Past imperfect (ARC Humanities Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised Beowulf as ""a work of the greatest imaginative vitality"": how is that true? The poem's current scholarly obsessions and its popular reception have obscured the fact that this untitled and anonymous 3182-line poem from Anglo-Saxon England is a powerful and enduring work of world literature. Beowulf is an early medieval exercise in humanism: it dramatizes, in varied an |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781641893923 1641893923 9781641893916 1641893915 9781641893930 1641893931 |