ENGLISH

The Mode and Meaning of 'Beowulf'

By Margaret E. Goldsmith

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
1472508726, 9781472508720
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16044298 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
Pages
282\295
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2014-02-24 10:07:05
Языки и языкознание;Древнеанглийский язык

Description

In this important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies Dr Goldsmith presents a fully elaborated and documented interpretation of Beowulf based on the original theories which she has put forward in recent years and which have aroused considerable interest and controversy in scholarly circles. Her view of the poem as the product of a marriage of cultural traditions, a historical epic with allegorical significance, is developed in the context of a close analysis of the doctrinal and literary environment prevailing during the period A.D. 650-800, within which composition is placed. Dr Goldsmith seeks to show that the poem has a unified and coherent structure and in the process resolves many textual and interpretative problems of long standing. Beowulf is clearly seen as a serious work of art standing at the head of the vernacular tradition of allegorical poetry.

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