THE MODE AND MEANING OF 'BEOWULF' by Margaret E. Goldsmith ( 9781472508720 )

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THE MODE AND MEANING OF 'BEOWULF'

By:

Margaret E. Goldsmith

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1472508726

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Pub. date:

7 November, 2013

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Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism

Pages:

282

Synopsis:

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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