Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript Tapa blanda - 2003

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 352pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts. The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2003-04-19. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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