The indeterminacy of Beowulf
The discourse on the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is marked by an almost complete lack of consensus on theme and content of the work, with assertions and their contradictory opposites both derived alike from scholarly study of the text and its context.
Print Book, English, 2002
University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
226 pages ; 2 cm
9780761823216, 0761823212
1130265246
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Abbreviations Chapter 3 The Duck-Rabbit of Indeterminacy Chapter 4 The Historical and the Fabulous Chapter 5 The Search for a Theme Chapter 6 Ambivalences and Transitions Chapter 7 The Ambiguous Text Chapter 8 Conclusions Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Subject Index Chapter 11 Author Index