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Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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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: Christine Rauer
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The analogues discussed are presented with facing translations and detailed bibliographies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Publisher: Bluefire
ISBN: 0375861734
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf.
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140302547
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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The story of Beowulf's life, his battle with the monster Grendel, and his death after a fight with a dragon.
Author: Robert Nye
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307807649
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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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.
Author: Alvin A. Lee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new.
Author: James Rumford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618756377
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568959207
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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: John Gardner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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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: Joey Yap
Publisher: Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN: 3905703173
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Book Description
A Travelogue from a Feng Shui Perspective With the release of this insightful travel account, Joey Yap establishes a platform to share with reader the one-of-a-kind experience of his annual China Excursion Series. With a generous insight into the mysterious and captivating world of ancient China, where the practice of Feng Shui was as integral to daily life as the use of technology is today. A step back into time, from a Feng Shui perspective.
