Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical AnthologyRobert Dennis Fulk Indiana University Press, 1991 - 282 sider Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien. |
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... singers were able , apparently from early on , to sing in a slightly adjusted traditional language songs based on these novel and untraditional themes . In the first place and stated in most general terms , the Christian themes that the ...
... singers were able , apparently from early on , to sing in a slightly adjusted traditional language songs based on these novel and untraditional themes . In the first place and stated in most general terms , the Christian themes that the ...
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... singers did not make things unnecessarily hard for themselves by attempting to sing about matters for the expression of which the old diction would have been inadequate . As it was singers and audience probably felt little difference ...
... singers did not make things unnecessarily hard for themselves by attempting to sing about matters for the expression of which the old diction would have been inadequate . As it was singers and audience probably felt little difference ...
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... singers perforce learn from other singers . But one verbal similarity or even a number of verbal similarities in themselves prove nothing beyond suggesting that given singers have found the same formulas useful to express a certain idea ...
... singers perforce learn from other singers . But one verbal similarity or even a number of verbal similarities in themselves prove nothing beyond suggesting that given singers have found the same formulas useful to express a certain idea ...
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BERTHA S PHILLPOTTS Wyrd and Providence in AngloSaxon | 1 |
The Monsters and the Critics 1936 | 14 |
FRANCIS P MAGOUN JR The OralFormulaic Character | 45 |
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