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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
A Note
about Dates
viii
Introduction: Hwast!
1
This section provides an overview of some of the most important critical debates
surrounding the poem. Critics mentioned here include James Earle, R.D. Fulk
and Christopher M. Cain, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Witherle Lawrence and Andrew
Prescott.
CHAPTER ONE
10
'Rude Beginning':
1705-1899
This chapter begins by exploring the significance of
1705
to the history of the
reception
oí
Beowulf, and the significance of the librarian and antiquary Humphrey
Wanley's Catalogue. Other topics include early editions and translations of the
poem and critics' attempts to find possible analogues to it.
CHAPTER TWO
22
'Conflicting Babel':
1900-1931
This chapter examines the types of interpretative approaches that began to replace
the musings of the early philologists and editors of Beowulf. A great deal of the
scholarship produced in the three decades covered here focuses on the possible
sources of the Old English poem (both Classical and Scandinavian). During this
period there were also ongoing discussions of the genre of Beowulf and attempts to
establish the exact relationship between the text's Christian and pagan elements.
CHAPTER THREE
38
The Monsters Meet the Critics: the
1930s
and
1940s
This chapter focuses on J.R.R. Tolkien's groundbreaking essay 'The Monsters and
the Critics' and early attempts to read Beowulf as a poem. Critical approaches to
the 'monsters' are also discussed, along with the question of whether Beowulf is
divided into two or three sections.
CHAPTER FOUR
53
The Debates Continue: the
1950s
and
1960s
The two decades under consideration in this chapter were important years for
Beowulf criticism. A wide variety of new approaches to the poem emerged and
vi
CONTENTS
familiar
themes and subjects were revisited in fresh and interesting ways. In the
light of Tolkien's earlier study, more criticism on the 'monsters' in Beowulf was
being produced and the historicity of Beowulf himself was debated. The com¬
position and role of the poem's original audience also came under the critical
spotlight. And, by the
mid-1960s,
the New Criticism even began to assert its
influence in the field.
CHAPTER FIVE
66
Stock-taking: the
1970s
This chapter covers a time when the landscape of Beowulf scholarship was rap¬
idly changing. Feminist criticism of the poem began to emerge, and there were
ongoing attempts to define what, exactly, Beowulf was about. Critical approaches
to the Christian-pagan tension in the poem are also examined, as well as opinions
concerning the poet's attitude towards his hero.
CHAPTER SIX
84
Critics on the Crest of a Wave: the
1980s
This chapter foregrounds approaches to the poem drawn from deconstruction,
semiotics, cultural studies, feminism, masculinity studies and psychoanalysis in
an attempt, as Seth
Lerer
puts it, 'to relocate Beowulf in the shifting canons of
contemporary academic debate'.
CHAPTER SEVEN
97
An Embarrassment of Critical Riches: the
1990s
to the present
Scholars during this period were especially prolific, as this chapter sets out to
show. Historicist, anthropological, sociological and post-colonial readings of
Beowulf are examined here. Also included are discussions of humour in the poem
and its relationship to orality and the genre of Beowulf.
CHAPTER EIGHT
115
Beowulf in Popular Culture
This chapter provides a brief survey of some of the novels, films, animations,
musical pieces, retellings for children, comic books and graphic novels based
(faithfully or otherwise) on Beowulf.
Conclusion
150
Notes
152
Select Bibliography
165
Index
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