Contributor
Donoghue, Daniel, 1956-
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Norton, c2002.
Descriptionxxxviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:The text of Beowulf -- Contexts -- The Beowulf manuscript / Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson -- Cain and Abel : Genesis 4.1-16 -- Hall-feasts and the queen -- Grettir the Strong and the trollwoman -- The Frisian slaughter : episode and fragment -- "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" / Alcuin -- History of the Franks [Hygelac's raid intro Frisia] / Gregory of Tours -- [Genealogy of the royal family of Wessex] / William of Malmesbury -- On the wars between the Swedes and the Geats -- Genealogies of the royal families in Beowulf -- The kingdoms and tribes of Beowulf -- Map : the Scandinavian setting of Beowulf -- Beowulf's name / R.D. Fulk, Joseph Harris -- Criticism -- Beowulf : the monsters and the critics / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The interlace structure of Beowulf / John Leyerle -- The structural unity of Beowulf : the problem of Grendel's mother / Jane Chance -- The Beowulf poet's sense of history / Roberta Frank -- The tomb of Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson -- The Christian language and theme of Beowulf / Thomas D. Hill -- Archaeology and Beowulf / Leslie Webster -- The philologer poet : Seamus Heaney and the translation of Beowulf / Daniel Donoghue -- Glossary of personal names.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256).
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