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Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, Like New Used, Free shipping i...

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

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Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, Like New Used, Free shipping i.... Beowulf : A Poem, Paperback by Scheil, Andrew, ISBN 1641893915, ISBN-13 9781641893916, Like New Used, 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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