Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic a Study in Comparative Mythology.
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...
| Основен автор: | Anderson, Earl R. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=502378 |
Съдържание:
- Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac
- Mythopoeia
- Grendel and his mother
- Grendel's mere
- ©schere's death and the problem of Hroogar
- 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.