The Beowulf Reader: Basic Readings / Edition 1

by Peter Baker

Overview

Gathering some of the most important studies from the past 25 years of Beowulf scholarship, The Beowulf Reader offers essential insights both to scholars in the field and to readers coming to this Old English literary masterpiece for the first time. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the various approaches that have dominated recent Beowulf studies and illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism, from New Critical formalism to recent trends in critical theory and a resurgent historicism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815336662
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/27/2000
Series:	Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England , #1
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Baker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn (1995).