Author :
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111105
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781568959207
A New York Times Bestseller. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410335046
Author : Ian Serraillier
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780613125079
Author : Intelligent Education
Publisher : Influence Publishers
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 164542037X
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry. As one of the most well-known works of early Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is one of the earliest records of standard Old English. Moreover, this epic is studied for its use of fusing pagan and Christian elements through the lens of a hero’s struggles. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Beowulf as a classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 9781435230323
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2010-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307756785
This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
Author : Sung-Il Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1532610173
This dual-language edition of Beowulf is for the general readers’ enjoyment of the poem as well as a study guide for students of English language and literature. To meet this dual purpose, the book provides the two texts running in parallel. The general readers can enjoy the poem by reading the translation; but the serious students of English can lean on the translation as a prop while studying the original text line after line. For the students of Old English, who wish to attain a thorough understanding of the original lines, the Textual and Explanatory Notes will be an indispensable apparatus: these notes discuss diverse scholarly interpretations on the problematic phrases and lines before the translator offers his own opinion.
Author : Ida L. Gordon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780719007781
Author : Robert Nye
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307807649
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --Beowulf.
