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Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic [electronic resource]

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This monograph is the first book-length comprehensive textual analysis of the Beowulf saga as an Indo-European epic. It provides a detailed reading of the epic in conjunction with ancient legal and cultural practices that allow for a new understanding of this classic work. This theoretical resource offers insights valuable to the fields of comparative mythology, medieval literature and Anglo-Saxon studies.

Title Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic [electronic resource] : A Study in Comparative Mythology
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press
Creation Date 2010
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content UNDERSTANDING BEOWULF AS AN INDO-EUROPEAN EPIC: A Study in Comparative Mythology
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Scyld, Beow, and the Problem of Hygelac
Chapter 2 - Mythopoeia
Chapter 3 - Grendel and his Mother
Chapter 4 - Grendel's Mere
Chapter 5 - Æschere's Death and the Problem of Hroogar
Chapter 6 - Symbolic Politics
Chapter 7 - Family Charisma
Chapter 8 - Rhetoric in an Open Text
Chapter 9 - Allusion: the Semiotics of Digression
Chapter 10 - Battlefield Typescenes
Chapter 11 - Wyrd, ellen, geibyld, and the Heroic MomentChapter 12 - The Dragon's Treasure
Appendix I - Aornos and Grendel's Mere (Beowulf 1368-72)
Appendix II - Epic Antithesis in Beowulf and Finnsburh
Bibliography
Index
Extent 1 online resource (605 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010720329105171
MARC RECORDS
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