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A Companion to Beowulf

Author : Ruth A. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027293
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Beowulf written by Ruth A. Johnston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-07-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, Beowulf grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism remains relevant to modern readers. Accessible to high school students, general readers, and undergraduates, this companion overviews the poem and its legacy. The initial chapters review the plot of Beowulf, while later chapters discuss its style and language, its cultural and historical contexts, and its afterlife in contemporary popular culture. The first part of the book provides information of interest to a wide range of readers, while the second covers more specialized topics. Thus the initial chapters review the merits of different translations and offer a detailed plot summary, while later chapters discuss the poem's language and style, its treatment of religion, its relation to Anglo-Saxon culture, and its legacy in popular culture. One of the greatest Beowulf scholars was J.R.R. Tolkien, and the book gives special attention to his use of the poem in his own fiction. High school students, undergraduates, and general readers will find this book a valuable guide to one of the most challenging yet enduring works of English literature.

A Critical Companion to Beowulf

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0859917665
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Beowulf written by Andy Orchard and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.

Beowulf

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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.

A Critical Companion to Beowulf

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843840299
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Beowulf written by Andy Orchard and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052119332X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature written by Malcolm Godden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Beowulf

Author : Nicky Raven
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 9780763636470
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by Nicky Raven and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, illustrated retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, to save the people of Heorot Hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.

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.

Beowulf Companion

Author : BookCaps
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1621075974
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf Companion written by BookCaps and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf is epic in every way--but let's face it..if you don't understand it, then you are not alone. This annotated book includes a summary of each section, an overview of themes and characters. It does not include the book. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Interpretations of Beowulf

Author : Robert D. Fulk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206398
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Interpretations of Beowulf written by Robert D. Fulk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of Beowulf brings together over six decades of literary scholarship. Illustrating a variety of interpretative schools, the essays not only deal with most of the major issues of Beowulf criticism, including structure, style, genre, and theme, but also offer the sort of explanations of particular passages that are invaluable to a careful reading of a poem. This up-to-date collection of significant critical approaches fills a long-standing need for a companion volume for the study of the poem. Larger patterns in the history of Beowulf criticism are also traceable in the chronological order of the collection. The contributors are Theodore M. Andersson, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Jane Chance, Laurence N. de Looze, Margaret E. Goldsmith, Stanley B. Greenfield, Joseph Harris, Edward B. Irving, Jr., John Leyerle, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., M. B. McNamee, S. J., Bertha S. Phillpotts, John C. Pope, Richard N. Ringler, Geoffrey R. Russom, T. A. Shippey, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf

Author : Peter Stuart Baker
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843463
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf written by Peter Stuart Baker and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked. 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 in social order but rather was seen as a reasonable way to get things done; where kings and their retainers saw themselves above all as warriors whose chief occupation was thepursuit of honour; and where most successful kings were those perceived as most predatory. Though kings and their subjects yearned for peace, the political and religious institutions of the time did little to restrain their violent impulses. Drawing on works from Britain, Scandinavia, and Ireland, which show how the practice of violence was governed by rules and customs which were observed, with variations, over a wide area, this book makes use of historicist and anthropological approaches to its subject. It takes a neutral attitude towards the phenomena it examines, but at the same time describes them fortnightly, avoiding euphemism and excuse-making on the one hand and condemnation on the other. In this it attempts to avoid the errors of critics who have sometimes been led astray by modern assumptions about the morality of violence. PETER S. BAKER is Professor of English at the Universityof Virginia.

Beowulf the Warrior

Author : Ian Serraillier
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613125079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf the Warrior written by Ian Serraillier and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Duty, Honor, Country

Author : Douglas MacArthur
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125375
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Duty, Honor, Country written by Douglas MacArthur and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, first published in 1962, consists of two distinguished speeches given by the General of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur. The first address took place on April 19, 1951 and was held before a joint meeting of the two houses of United States Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—and took place in the Hall of the House of Representatives. This meeting followed on just one week from MacArthur’s removal from command by President Harry S. Truman. The second address was held on May 12, 1921 and was given to The Members of the Association of Graduates, U.S.M.A., The Corps of Cadets, and Distinguished Guests. It was given on the occasion of MacArthur’s acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award for outstanding service to the nation, which had gone to Eisenhower the year before. The event was held at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Pride and Prodigies

Author : Andy Orchard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085832
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Pride and Prodigies written by Andy Orchard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521880947
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Epic written by Catherine Bates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry in a series of accessible essays.

A Study Guide for Beowulf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410335046
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Beowulf written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Unlocked

Author : Michael D.C. Drout
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319306286
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf Unlocked written by Michael D.C. Drout and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most original and ground-breaking work on Beowulf in several decades, this book uses “lexomic” methods that blend computer-assisted statistical analysis with traditional approaches to reveal new and surprising information about the construction and sources of the greatest surviving Old English poem. Techniques of cluster analysis identify patterns of vocabulary distribution that indicate robust similarities and differences among segments of the poem. The correlation of these patterns with knowledge gained from source-study, philological analysis, and neglected previous scholarship sheds new light on the material of which Beowulf was made and the way it was composed. The implications of this investigation for the dating, structure, and cultural context of Beowulf will overturn the current scholarly consensus and significantly improve our understanding of the poem, its nature, and origins.