Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic [electronic resource]
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
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.
כותר |
Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic [electronic resource] : A Study in Comparative Mythology |
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מהדורה |
1st ed. |
מוציא לאור |
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press |
שנה |
2010 |
הערות |
Description based upon print version of record. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
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 |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (605 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010720329105171 |
תצוגת MARC
תגיות
- Beowulf.
- Bjowulf
- Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
- Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
- Mythology in literature.
- Mythology, Indo-European -- Comparative studies.
- Epic poetry, English (Old) History and criticism Comparative studies
- Mythology in literature Themes, motives
- Mythology, Indo-European
- Comparative literature
- English
- Languages & Literatures
- English Literature
- Comparative literature History and criticism
- nne Literature, Comparative
- Indo-European mythology
- nne Mythology, Aryan
- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry
- English epic poetry, Old
- nne Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon
- Old English epic poetry
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