Beowulf : : The Poem and Its Tradition / / John D. Niles.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1983
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.) :; illsutrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
PREFACE --
CONTENTS --
( I ) CONTEXT --
1. THE MARVELOUS --
2. THE ART OF THE GERMANIC SCOP --
3. LATIN CHRISTIAN LETTERS --
4. THE DANES AND THE DATE --
( II ) STYLE AND STRUCTURE --
5. FORMULA AND FORMULAIC SYSTEM --
6. COMPOUND DICTION --
7. RING COMPOSITION --
8. BARBARIC STYLE --
( III ) INTERPRETĀTION --
9. THE DIMENSION OF TIME --
10. THE NARRATOR’S VOICE --
11. THE LISTENING AUDIENCE --
12. RECIPROCITY --
13. THE CONTROLLING THEME --
14. THE FATAL CONTRADICTION --
AFTERWORD: THE EXCELLENCE OF BEOWULF --
ABBREVIATIONS NOTES INDEX --
ABBREVIATIONS --
NOTES --
INDEX
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674182998
9783110353488
9783110353501
9783110442212
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674182998
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: John D. Niles.