This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work. The essays have been selected to represent the various approaches that have dominated recent Beowulf studies and to illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism. The volume will be useful both to students encountering the poem for the first time and to scholars who wish to have on their shelves a gathering of significant essays.
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Peter Baker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn (1995).
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This book was the required secondary reading in a graduate level English course I took on Beowulf this year at Georgia State University. It contains several significant papers published on the poem since the mid-60s. Most of them are well-written (with a few exceptions) and not too difficult to understand. If you are looking for a general guide to research on Beowulf in the last 35 years, this is a great place to start.
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Old English, New York, Anglo-Saxon England, Dorothy Whitelock, Old Norse, Cotton Vitellius, Nowell Codex, Colin Chase, Old Testament, Kenneth Sisam, Monumenta Germaniae, Vita Oswini, Five Types, West Saxon, Proceedings of the British Academy, Professor Tolkien, Thomas Cable, Ericus Disertus, Exeter Book, Hans Kuhn, Liber Monstrorum, Martinez Pizarro, New Haven, Notre Dame, Scyld Scefing New!
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WE have no traditional approach to Beowulf. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, New York, Anglo-Saxon England, Dorothy Whitelock, Old Norse, Cotton Vitellius, Nowell Codex, Colin Chase, Old Testament, Kenneth Sisam, Monumenta Germaniae, Vita Oswini, Five Types, West Saxon, Proceedings of the British Academy, Professor Tolkien, Thomas Cable, Ericus Disertus, Exeter Book, Hans Kuhn, Liber Monstrorum, Martinez Pizarro, New Haven, Notre Dame, Scyld Scefing New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 10 pages
- The Dating of Beowulf (Toronto Old English Studies) by Colin Chase on 7 pages
- Monsters and the Critics by J R R Tolkien on 6 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton on 4 pages
- Studies in the history of Old English literature by Kenneth Sisam on 4 pages
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- Reading Old English Texts by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe on page 77, and page 98
- Old English Literature: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature) by Daniel Donoghue in Back Matter
- The Metre of Beowulf: A Constraint-Based Approach (Topics in English Linguistics, 36) by Michael Getty in Back Matter
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