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020 $a0859913945 (alk. paper) :$c$63.00
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050 00 $aPR1585$b.S7 1993
082 00 $a829/.3$220
100 1 $aStanley, Eric Gerald.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83050694
245 10 $aIn the foreground :$bBeowulf /$cEric Gerald Stanley.
260 $aWoodbridge, UK ;$aRochester, NY :$bD.S. Brewer,$c1994.
263 $a9311
300 $axiv, 273 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aA. What is said of Beowulf: Beowulf in Literary History. Ch. I. The Period up to the Second World War. Ch. II. The Last Fifty Years -- B. What is known of Beowulf. Ch. III. Uncertainties of the Date and Transmission of Beowulf. Ch. IV. Some Metrical Considerations, Poetic Diction and Ornamentation. Ch. V. Prayers, Praise, and Thanksgiving in Old English Verse -- Ch. VI. Postscript -- Index I Bibliographical Index of Scholars and Critics -- Index II Literary Index of Authors and Writings -- Index III Lexical Index of Words and Phrases.
520 $aProfessor E.G. Stanley is internationally famous amongst scholars of Old and Middle English for his formidable learning, incisive style and often sceptical views. The present book is an unusual, controversial and very learned attack on many past and present opinions held by scholars and critics about Old English poetry. He emphasises the limitations of our knowledge and of all readers' historical conditioning and expectations. He writes without jargon and with a crisp wit.
520 8 $aEric Stanley's concise survey of Beowulf scholarship and criticism is illuminating and appropriately humbling for all critics and scholars of any period; his detailed technical comments on metres and poetic diction lead to a new understanding; in particular his section on the centrality of Christian prayer, praise and thanksgiving in Old English poetry, especially Beowulf, will bring about a significant shift in the general understanding of the poem.
520 8 $aTo the end, Professor Stanley characteristically emphasises how vital are accuracy and doubt to scholarship and criticism. He exemplifies both in abundance in a book that can be read through and also frequently turned to as a reference book. This is a book that no scholar or critic of Old English poetry can afford to ignore.
630 00 $aBeowulf.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018834
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR1585$i.S7 1994