This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown i…
"This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown …
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating comme…
Was the Beowulf poet a Christian? Or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The eighteen contributi…
An anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece. The contributions to this anthology are arranged chronologicall according to the date of the criticism's first publication.
Interpretation of Beowulf brings together more than six decades of literary scholarship. The anthology illustrates a variety of interpretative schools, and the selection of essays not only deals with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genr…
Interpretation of Beowulf brings together more than six decades of literary scholarship. The anthology illustrates a variety of interpretative schools, and the selection of essays not only deals with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genr…
