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Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, Brand New, Free shipping in th...

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Number of Pages: 112 Pages Publisher: ARC Humanities Press Type: Textbook Book Title: Beowulf : A Poem Language: English Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781641893916 height: 0.3 in Item Weight: 3.5 Oz Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Literary Collections Features: New Edition width: 4.5 in Series: Past Imperfect Ser. Author: Andrew Scheil Publication Name: Beowulf--A Poem Item Length: 7 in Publication Year: 2022 Item Width: 4.5 in Subject: Medieval, Folklore & Mythology, General Item Height: 0.3 in

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Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, Brand New, Free shipping in th.... Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, ISBN 1641893915, ISBN-13 9781641893916, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised Beowulf as "a work of the greatest imaginative vitality": how is that true? The poem's current scholarly obsessions and its popular reception have obscured the fact that this untitled and anonymous 3182-line poem from Anglo-Saxon England is a powerful and enduring work of world literature. Beowulf is an early medieval exercise in humanism: it dramatizes, in varied and complex ways, the conflict between human autonomy and the "mind-forg'd manacles" of the world. The poem is as relevant and moving to any reader today as it was during the early Middle Ages. This book serves both as an invitation and introduction to the poem as well as an intervention in its current scholarly context.

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