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In the Foreground: Beowulf

In the Foreground: Beowulf


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Professor E.G. Stanley is internationally famous amongst scholars of Old and Middle English for his formidable learning, incisive style and often sceptical views. In the Foreground: Beowulfis an unusual, controversial and learned attack on many past and present opinions held by scholars and critics about Old English poetry, written without jargon and with a crisp wit. Its contents include a concise and illuminating survey of Beowulfscholarship and criticism; detailed technical comments on metres and poetic diction providing valuable new insights; and a section on the centrality of Christian prayer, praise and thanksgiving in Old English poetry, especially Beowulf, which will bring about a significant shift in the general understanding of the poem. Throughout, Professor Stanley characteristically emphasises the importance of accuracy and doubt to scholarship and criticism, virtues exemplified in this volume. In the Foreground: Beowulfis a book that no scholar or critic of Old English poetry will be able to ignore.E.G. STANLEY is Emeritus Bosworth and Toller Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 What is said of "Beowulf": "Beowulf" in literary history; the period up to the Second World War; the last 50 years. Part 2 What is known of "Beowulf": uncertainties of the date and transmission of "Beowulf"; some metrical considerations, poetic diction and ornamentation; prayers, praise and thanksgiving in Old English verse.

Review :
Eric Stanley has written well and often on Beowulf, and this book represents a magisterial return to a text whose poetic merits the author justly celebrates... erudite and entertaining. MEDIUM AEVUM [Andy Orchard]Delightful, curious, exasperating, witty, detailed work filled with learned views and prejudices and startling insights.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780859913942
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: D.S. Brewer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 285
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0859913945
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 1994
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Beowulf


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