附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and indexes.
Beowulf : a brief summary of the plot -- Foreword : looking back -- Manuscript and text -- Style and structure -- Myth and legend -- Religion and learning -- Heroes and villains -- Words and deeds -- Beowulf : beyond criticism? -- Afterword : looking forward -- The foliation of Beowulf -- Repeated formulas in Beowulf -- A concordance of repeated formulas in Beowulf.
摘要:This book contains an overview of the current state of scholarship on Beowulf, looking back over the history of the field and suggesting new directions for future research. More than 1,000 books, articles, recordings and websites are surveyed and a nuanced sense is offered of the great variety of views that have been expressed on this greatest of all remaining Old English texts. The book is intended to offer guidance and stimulus to all readers of Beowulf, whether scholars, students or first-time readers of the most complex, engaging, and gripping work to survive from Anglo-Saxon England.
