Beasts of time: apocalyptic Beowulf

Over time the reputation of Beowulf as a poem continues to rise. Extant in only one manuscript, yet perhaps the most studied of English poems, it represents a remarkable text and artifact: the first European vernacular epic. And like much of the work of its age, Beowulf exhibits a strong native stra...

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1. Verfasser: Risden, Edward L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Lang 1994
Schriftenreihe:Studies in the humanities 8
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Zusammenfassung:Over time the reputation of Beowulf as a poem continues to rise. Extant in only one manuscript, yet perhaps the most studied of English poems, it represents a remarkable text and artifact: the first European vernacular epic. And like much of the work of its age, Beowulf exhibits a strong native strain of apocalypticism, a pervasive awareness of the imminence of end-times. The chief source of its apocalyptic power, the poem's beasts, haunts the reader; one cannot depart the poem without a sense that the monsters and heroes continue their battle into the present and beyond.
Beschreibung:165 S.
ISBN:0820423343

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