Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic: a Study in Comparative Mythology
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1. Verfasser: Anderson, Earl R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press 2010
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Beschreibung:This monograph is the first book-length comprehensive textual analysis of the Beowulf saga as an Indo-European epic. It provides a detailed reading of the epic in conjunction with ancient legal and cultural practices that allow for a new understanding of this classic work. This theoretical resource offers insights valuable to the fields of comparative mythology, medieval literature and Anglo-Saxon studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- Æschere's death and the problem of Hroǒgar -- Symbolic politics -- Family charisma -- Rhetoric in an open text -- Allusion: the semiotics of digression -- Battlefield typescenes -- Wyrd, ellen, geuyld, and the heroic moment -- The dragon's treasure
Beschreibung:605 pages
ISBN:9780773421691
0773421696
9780773437555
077343755X

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