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The Transmission of "Beowulf"

Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708279
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Transmission of "Beowulf" written by Leonard Neidorf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite authorship? How substantially did scribes alter the text during its transmission, and how much time elapsed between composition and preservation? Neidorf answers these questions by distinguishing linguistic and metrical regularities, which originate with the Beowulf poet, from patterns of textual corruption, which descend from copyists involved in the poem’s transmission. He argues, on the basis of archaic features that pervade Beowulf and set it apart from other Old English poems, that the text preserved in the sole extant manuscript (ca. 1000) is essentially the work of one poet who composed it circa 700. Of course, during the poem’s written transmission, several hundred scribal errors crept into its text. These errors are interpreted in the central chapters of the book as valuable evidence for language history, cultural change, and scribal practice. Neidorf’s analysis reveals that the scribes earnestly attempted to standardize and modernize the text’s orthography, but their unfamiliarity with obsolete words and ancient heroes resulted in frequent errors. The Beowulf manuscript thus emerges from his study as an indispensible witness to processes of linguistic and cultural change that took place in England between the eighth and eleventh centuries. An appendix addresses J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, which was published in 2014. Neidorf assesses Tolkien’s general views on the transmission of Beowulf and evaluates his position on various textual issues.

Beowulf

Author :
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111105
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.

Beowulf

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228880
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation--spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry--makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.

The Story of Beowulf

Author : Ernest J. B. Kirtlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Beowulf written by Ernest J. B. Kirtlan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beowulf

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781568959207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by Seamus Heaney and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.

The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet

Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766910
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Thought of the "Beowulf" Poet written by Leonard Neidorf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit horrendous deeds: fathers kill sons, brothers kill brothers, and wives kill husbands. Medieval Germanic poets relished the depiction of a hero's unyielding response to a cruel fate, but the Beowulf poet refused to construct an epic around this traditional plot. Focusing instead on a courteous and pious protagonist's fight against monsters, the poet creates a work that is deeply untraditional in both its plot and its values. In Beowulf, the kin-slayers and oath-breakers of antecedent tradition are confined to the background, while the poet fills the foreground with unconventional characters, who abstain from transgression, display courtly etiquette, and express monotheistic convictions. Comparing Beowulf with its medieval German and Scandinavian analogues, The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet argues that the poem's uniqueness reflects one poet's coherent plan for the moral renovation of an amoral heroic tradition. In Beowulf, Neidorf discerns the presence of a singular mind at work in the combination and modification of heroic, folkloric, hagiographical, and historical materials. Rather than perceive Beowulf as an impersonally generated object, Neidorf argues that it should be read as the considered result of one poet's ambition to produce a morally edifying, theologically palatable, and historically plausible epic out of material that could not independently constitute such a poem.

Beowulf

Author : Robert Nye
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307807649
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by Robert Nye and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --Beowulf.

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Author : Constance Hieatt
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0307434826
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf and Other Old English Poems written by Constance Hieatt and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.

The Beowulf Manuscript

Author : R. D. Fulk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674052951
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Beowulf Manuscript written by R. D. Fulk and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. --Book Jacket.

Beowulf

Author : John Lesslie Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by John Lesslie Hall and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beowulf, a Hero's Tale Retold

Author : James Rumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618756377
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf, a Hero's Tale Retold written by James Rumford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.

The Origins of Beowulf

Author : Richard North
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191525731
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Beowulf written by Richard North and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests that the Old English epic Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. The place of composition is given as the minster of Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire (now Derbyshire) and the poet is named as the abbot, Eanmund. As well as pinpointing the poem's place and date of composition, Richard North raises some old questions relating to the poet's influences from Vergil and from living Danes. Norse analogues are discussed in order to identify how the poet changed his heroic sources while four episodes from Beowulf are shown to be reworked from passages in Vergil's Aeneid. One chapter assesses how the poem's Latin sources might correspond with what is known of Breedon's now-lost library while another seeks to explain Danish mythology in Beowulf by arguing that Breedon hosted a meeting with Danish Vikings in 809. This fascinating and challenging new study combines careful detective work with meticulous literary analysis to form a case that no future investigation will be able to ignore.

Beowulf as Children's Literature

Author : Bruce Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781487515843
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf as Children's Literature written by Bruce Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children's literature. Over the past century and a half, more than 150 new versions of Beowulf directed to child and teen audiences have appeared, in English and in many other languages. In this collection of original essays, Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize examine the history and processes of remaking Beowulf for young readers. Inventive in their manipulations of story, tone, and genre, these adaptations require their authors to make countless decisions about what to include, exclude, emphasize, de-emphasize, and adjust. This volume considers the many forms of children's literature, focusing primarily on picture books, illustrated storybooks, and youth novels, but taking account also of curricular aids, illustrated full translations of the poem, and songs. Contributors address issues of gender, historical context, war and violence, techniques of narration, education, and nationalism, investigating both the historical and theoretical dimensions of bringing Beowulf to child audiences."--

The Adventures of Beowulf

Author : David Breeden
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557402468
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Beowulf written by David Breeden and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beowulf

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393320979
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by Seamus Heaney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.

Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg

Author : R. D. Fulk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098436
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg written by R. D. Fulk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. It also addresses aids to pronunciation and advances in the study of the poem's language.

The Cultural World in Beowulf

Author : John M. Hill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442655615
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural World in Beowulf written by John M. Hill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world—a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, John Hill looks at Beowulf from a comparative ethnological point of view. He provides a thorough examination of the socio-cultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of Beowulf to that of similarly organized cultures. Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France, as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia, a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different Beowulf is illuminated. The study is divided into five major essays: on ethnology and social drama, the temporal world, the legal world, the economy of honour, and the psychological world. Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements: in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions, both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy, acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force, and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one. Family and kinship relations, revenge themes, heroic poetry, myth, legality, and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in Beowulf to the foreground, allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for Anglo-Saxon society.