Bibliograph

Beowulf, a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism, translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe

Type

Label

Beowulf, a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism, translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198)

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beowulf

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

46685616

Responsibility statement

translated by E. Talbot Donaldson ; edited by Nicholas Howe

Series statement

A Norton critical edition

Sub title

a prose translation : backgrounds and contexts, criticism

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

Table Of 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

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