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LITERATURE
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Myths, Legends, and Heroes
Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature
OLD NORSE, OLD ICELANDIC, AND OLD ENGLISH
Edited by Daniel Anlezark
In Myths, Legends, and Heroes, editor Daniel Anlezark
has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic
and Old English literature to explore the translation
and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature
in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of
myth in the expression of family relationships, and
recurrent motifs in Northern literature.
The essays in Myths, Legends, and Heroes offer
new insights in light of linguistic and archaeological
evidence and a broad range of study with regard to
both chronology and methodology.
Daniel Anlezark is a senior lecturer in the Department
of English at the University of Sydney.
‘Scholars will find much to admire in this stimulating,
highly original collection.’
Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic Series)
312 pp / 8 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2011
Cloth 978-0-8020-9947-1 $65.00 (£45.99)
Klaeber’s Beowulf, Fourth Edition
Edited by R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork,
and John D. Niles
Winner of the International Society of Anglo-
Saxonists Best Edition Award
Frederick Klaeber’s Beowulf has long been the standard
edition for study by students and advanced scholars
alike thanks to its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship,
its comprehensive philological aids, and its
exceptionally thorough notes and glossary.
The fourth edition features a revised Introduction
and Commentary detailing the vast store of scholarship
on Beowulf that has appeared since 1950, and
the lightly revised text incorporates the best textual
criticism of the intervening years. Aids to pronunciation
have been added to the text, and advances
in the study of the poem’s language are addressed
throughout.
R.D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor
of English at Indiana University. Robert E. Bjork
is Professor of English and director of the Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona
State University. John D. Niles is Frederic G.
Cassidy Professor of Humanities in the Department
of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
‘Every Beowulf scholar will want to have a copy of the
new Klaeber at hand, so convenient are the superb
summaries of scholarship throughout the book.’
Fred C. Robinson, Speculum
‘From now on Klaeber’s Beowulf will be the definitive
scholarly edition of the poem and an essential resource
for anyone participating in any aspect of Beowulf
scholarship.’
Hugh Magennis, English Studies
(Toronto Old English Series)
704 pp / 6 x 9 / 2008
Cloth 978-0-8020-9843-6 $103.00 (£72.99)
Paper 978-0-8020-9567-1 $40.95 (£28.99)
The Narrative Pulse of Beowulf
Arrivals and Departures
John M. Hill
One of the most consistent critiques levelled against
Beowulf is that it lacks a steady narrative advance
and that its numerous digressions tend to complicate
if not halt the poem’s movement. The Narrative
Pulse of Beowulf counters this assertion, examining
Beowulf as a social drama with a strong, forwardmoving
narrative momentum.
John M. Hill discerns a distinctive ‘narrative pulse’
arising out of the poem’s many scenes of arrival and
departure. He argues that such scenes, far from being
fixed or ‘type’ scenes, are socially dramatic and act
as a key to understanding the structural density of
the poem, and bolsters his analysis with a strong
understanding of the epic.
John M. Hill is a professor in the English Department
at the U.S. Naval Academy.
‘John Hill offers an elegant reading of an ancient
and difficult poem … This welcome book will be
extraordinarily useful to students at all levels.’
Stephen J. Harris, Speculum
(Toronto Old English Studies)
136 pp / 6 x 9 / 2009
Cloth 978-0-8020-9329-5 $41.00 (£28.99)
Paper 978-1-4426-1087-3 $21.95 (£15.99)
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