A Beowulf Handbook (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859896218 ISBN 13: 9780859896214

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1997

Synopsis

- An indispensable guide to Beowulf

- Written to appeal to non-specialists as well as scholars

- An illustrated volume in the series Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

About this title

About the Authors

Robert E. Bjork is a Professor of English at Arizona State University. His published work includes four books on Old English poetry and translations of seven modern Swedish novels. He serves on the Council of the Medieval Academy of America, is past President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and for the 2004-2005 academic year, was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

John D. Niles is a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since the early 1970s. He is a specialist in the earliest period of English literature.

From the Back Cover

The individual chapters by eighteen scholars offer both a rapid survey of scholarly trends in the study of Beowulf and a more sustained exploration of selected problems. Each chapter begins with a brief summary of its contents followed by an annotated chronology of the most important books and articles on the particular topic it treats. The core of each chapter constitutes a history of scholarly interest in the topic under consideration, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. All of the chapters have been written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience - from nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf to scholars at work on their own research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859896218
• ISBN 13: 9780859896214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478
• Editor: Bjork Robert E., Niles John D.