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Author

Earl, James Whitby.

Title Thinking about Beowulf / James W. Earl.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	829.3 Ea73t 1994	---	Available

Description	x, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
Contents	The birth and death of civilization -- Transformations of chaos -- Oral-literate two case histories -- Beowulf and the men's hall -- Two psychoanalytic excursions -- Beowulf and the origins of civilization.
Subject	Beowulf.
	Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
	Free will and determinism in literature.
	Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
	Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
	Literature and anthropology -- England.
	Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
	Literature and history -- England.
	Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
	Liberty in literature.
ISBN	0804717001 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $35.00
	0804727953 (pbk.)