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The indeterminacy of Beowulf

Title
The indeterminacy of Beowulf / Johann Köberl.
Author
Köberl, Johann, 1948-
Publication
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2002.

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Contents
The Duck-Rabbit of Indeterminacy. Texts and Duck-Rabbits. Beowulf and the Duck-Rabbit -- The Historical and the Fabulous. The Swinging Pendulum. Beowulf as Historical Document. The Fabulous Elements. The Fabulous and the Historical -- The Search for a Theme. The Individual. Society -- Ambivalences and Transitions. Humans and Monsters. Heroic Relativism. Changes and Thresholds -- The Ambiguous Text. Lexical Ambiguity. Syntactic Ambiguity. Referential Ambiguity. Non-Literal Language Use: Irony -- Conclusions. Duck-Rabbits Dissected. Duck-Rabbits Alive. Duck-Rabbits Forever.
ISBN
0761823212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002020416
OCLC
  • ocm49773748
  • SCSB-4309106
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries