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Loading... Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (Medieval & Renais Text Studies) (edition 1905)by Michael D. C. Drout (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book analyzes Tolkien's essay "The Monsters and the Critics". It goes into detail about the process he went through to create that essay, providing a fascinating insight into how Tolkien arrived at the ideas and even the wording he used. Somewhat heavy going for the general reader. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The most important essay in the history of Beowulf scholarship, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" has been much studied and discussed. But scholars of both Beowulf and Tolkien have to this point been unaware that Tolkien's essay was a redaction of a much longer and more substantial work, Beowulf and the critics, which Tolkien wrote in the 1930s and probably delivered as a series of Oxford lectures. This critical edition of Beowulf and the critics presents both unpublished versions of Tolkien's lecture, each substantially different from the other and from the final, published essay. The edition included a description of the manuscript, complete textual and explanatory notes, and a detailed critical introduction that explains the place of Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon scholarship both in the history of Beowulf scholarship and in literary history. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)829.3Literature English & Old English literatures Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literature BeowulfLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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