A revised Introduction and Commentary incorporates the vast store of scholarship on Beowulf that has appeared since 1950. It brings readers up to date on areas of scholarship that have been controversial since the last edition, including the construction of the unique manuscript and views on the poem's date and unity of composition. The lightly revised text incorporates the best textual criticism of the intervening years, and the expanded Commentary furnishes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. Aids to pronunciation have been added to the text, and advances in the study of the poem's language are addressed throughout. Readers will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but with altered and added features designed to render it as useful today as it has ever been.
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A revised Introduction and Commentary incorporates the vast store of scholarship on Beowulf that has appeared since 1950. It brings readers up to date on areas of scholarship that have been controversial since the last edition, including the construction of the unique manuscript and views on the poem's date and unity of composition. The lightly revised text incorporates the best textual criticism of the intervening years, and the expanded Commentary furnishes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. Aids to pronunciation have been added to the text, and advances in the study of the poem's language are addressed throughout. Readers will find that the book remains recognizably Klaeber's work, but with altered and added features designed to render it as useful today as it has ever been.
Imprint | University of Toronto Press |
Country of origin | Canada |
Series | Toronto Old English Studies |
Release date | April 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days |
First published | April 2008 |
Editors | R. D Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 704 |
Edition | 4 Revised Edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8020-9567-1 |
Barcode | 9780802095671 |
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LSN | 0-8020-9567-4 |