Description

Book Synopsis
A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I - the Four Funerals
2. The first funeral: Scyld Scefing's Ship of Death
3. The second funeral: the cremation of Hildeburg's kin
4. The third funeral: the Last Survivor's Lament
5. The fourth funeral: Beowulf's complex obsequies
6. Classicising the past
Part II - The Funerals and the Structure of the Poem
7. Rings and fitts
8. The funerals and elliptical structures I: the inner funerals as frames
9. The funerals and elliptical structures II: the outer structures
10. The funerals and elliptical structures III: the funerals as centres
11. Three movements and a coda: Beowulf's femininst middle
Conclusions

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 10 January 2009
      ISBN-13 9780719081217
      978-0719081217
      ISBN-10 0719081211

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A groundbreaking work which produces many insights into this early masterpiece

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      Part I - the Four Funerals
      2. The first funeral: Scyld Scefing's Ship of Death
      3. The second funeral: the cremation of Hildeburg's kin
      4. The third funeral: the Last Survivor's Lament
      5. The fourth funeral: Beowulf's complex obsequies
      6. Classicising the past
      Part II - The Funerals and the Structure of the Poem
      7. Rings and fitts
      8. The funerals and elliptical structures I: the inner funerals as frames
      9. The funerals and elliptical structures II: the outer structures
      10. The funerals and elliptical structures III: the funerals as centres
      11. Three movements and a coda: Beowulf's femininst middle
      Conclusions

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