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Anglo-Saxons in literature. --- Homicide in literature. --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Law, Germanic --- Law and literature --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry --- English poetry --- Germanic law --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Criticism, Textual. --- History. --- History --- Beowulf --- Bjowulf --- Editing.

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The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large ramifications. This collection of essays by leading scholars has become a standard reference for scholarship in the area.

Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscript dating. --- Middle Ages --- Dating of manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon civilization --- Anglo-Saxons --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry --- English poetry --- Chronology. --- Civilization --- Beowulf. --- Bjowulf --- England --- Scandinavia --- Fennoscandia --- Norden --- Nordic countries --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- History

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Epic poetry, English --- -Fall of man in literature --- English epic poetry --- English poetry --- History and criticism --- Milton, John --- Fall of man in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Milton, John, --- Fall of man in literature --- Rubinstein, Anton,

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This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The book outlines a theory of how and why epic narrative may be said to subvert certain of its constitutive claims while articulating a cultural argument of which it becomes the contradictory paradigm. The author focuses on the aesthetic and ideological work accomplished by poetic figure in these narratives, and understands ideology as a figurative, substitutive system that resembles and uses the system of tropes. She defines the ideological function of tropes in narrative and the often contradictory way in which narratives acknowledge and seek to efface the transformative functions of ideology. Beginning with what it describes as a dual tendency within the epic simile (toward metaphor in the transformations of ideology; toward metonymy as it maintains a structure of difference), the book defines the politics of the simile in epic narrative and identifies metalepsis as the defining trope of ideology. It demonstrates the political and poetic costs of the structural reliance of allegorical narrative on catachresis and shows how the narrator's use of prosopopoeia to assert political authority reshapes the figurative economy of the epic. The book is particularly innovative in being the first to apply to the epic the set of questions posed by the linking of the theory of rhetoric and the theory of ideology. It argues that historical pressures on a text are often best seen as a dialectic in which ideology shapes poetic process while poetry counters, resists, figures, or generates the tropes of ideology itself.

Classicism --- Epic poetry, English --- Epic poetry --- Figures of speech. --- English language --- Imagery --- Speech, Figures of --- Tropes --- Rhetoric --- Symbolism --- English epic poetry --- English poetry --- History --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism. --- Figures of speech --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Virgil. --- Homer. --- Homer

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These modern verse translations manage to retain the verse rhythm of the originals. This volume includes explanatory notes and new interpretations of the original text.

Anglo-Norman literature -- History and criticism. --- English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. --- Old Norse literature -- History and criticism. --- Monsters --- Dragons --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- English poetry --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English literature --- Anglo-Saxon epic poetry --- English epic poetry, Old --- Epic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- Old English epic poetry --- Freaks --- Monsters, Double --- Monstrosities --- Animals --- Curiosities and wonders --- Folklore --- Abnormalities --- Beowulf. --- Scandinavia --- Bjowulf