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

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In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orchard, Andy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Beowulf.
Beowulf > Manuscripts.
Pride in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Heroes in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Orgueil dans la litterature.
Heros dans la litterature.
Monstres dans la litterature.
Manuscripts.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Beowulf-manuscript
  • Psychology and physicality: the monsters of Beowulf
  • The kin of Cain
  • The liber monstrorum
  • The Alexander-legend in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Grettir and Grendel again
  • Postscript.

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