The Transmission of "Beowulf" : Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neidorf, Leonard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Beowulf.
Beowulf > Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts.
Language and culture.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Language and culture > England > History > To 1500.
Transmission of texts > England > History > To 1500.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > Criticism, Textual.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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