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The vivid depiction of a dragon-fight in the Old English poem 'Beowulf' and its relationship with other litera
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Demonstrates how Beowulf?s symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, an
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The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon t
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A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece
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Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate lite
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Bringing contemporary critical theory to bear on Beowulf, the author explores the literary originality of a poem often t
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On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of t
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Cross-disciplinary study arguing that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowu
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