Beowulf /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloom, Harold
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]
Series:Bloom's guides.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • J.R.R. Tolkein on poetic structure
  • Joan Blomfield on style
  • Stanley B. Greenfield on the epic quality
  • Edward B. Irving, Jr. on negative definitions
  • T.A. Shippey on symbols in the world of the poem
  • James W. Earl on the gold hoard
  • David Williams on Cain's progeny
  • Linda Georgianna on Beowulf's speech before the dragon fight
  • Susanne Weil on free will
  • Paul Dean on history and the passage of time
  • Thomas A. Prendergast on memory and the idolatrous pleasures of heroic poetry.