Beowulf: A Prose Translation: Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780393974065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str.

Nicholas Howe

Opis

"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings ofBeowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldson's presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript. "Criticism" collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations ofBeowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe. A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are included.