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Beowulf : a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism / translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe.
- Title
- Beowulf : a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism / translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, c2002.
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- Description
- xvi, 198 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Contains the prose translation of "Beowulf" and provides historical, linguistic, and literary settings, origins of Old English language, and material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Beowulf. English.
- Norton critical edition
- Subject
- Beowulf, King of the Geats > Poetry
- Grendel (Monster) > Poetry
- Beowülf
- Beowulf
- Epic poetry, English (Old) > History and criticism
- Epic poetry, English (Old) > Modernized versions
- Monsters in literature
- Dragons in literature
- Heroes in literature
- Monsters > Poetry
- Dragons > Poetry
- Heroes > Poetry
- Epic poetry, English (Old) > Translations into English
- Scandinavia > In literature
- Scandinavia > Poetry
- Genre/Form
- epic poems.
- epic literature.
- Poetry
- Epic poetry
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Translations
- Translations (form)
- Poems (texts)
- Poésie épique.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The text of Beowulf. -- Backgrounds and contexts. The Beowulf manuscript ; Tribes and genealogies ; The geography of Beowulf ; The origins of Old English to 800 A.D. / Robert C. Hughes ; Map: The continental homelands of the Germanic invaders ; Map: The English kingdoms at the beginning of the seventh century A.D. ; [Old English prosody and Cædmon's Hymn] / E. Talbot Donaldson. -- Criticism. Appositive style and the theme of Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson ; The Beowulf poet's sense of history / Roberta Frank ; Reconceiving Beowulf: poetry as social praxis / John D. Niles ; Beowulf and the psychology of terror / Michael Lapidge ; "Þæt wæs geomuru ides!" a female stereotype examines / Joyce Hill ; The female mourner at Beowulf's funeral: filling in the blanks/hearing the spaces / Helen Bennett ; The uses of uncertainty: on the dating of Beowulf / Nicholas Howe.
- ISBN
- 0393974065 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001030889
- OCLC
- 46685616
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library