Annotation: J.R.R. Tolkien - "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
It is no exaggeration to say that Tolkien's "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" is the single most significant and influential essay...
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Annotation: Richard Burton - "Woman in Old English Poetry"
One of the pleasures of working on a text as well-studied as Beowulf is that the body of scholarship has had time to grow and change over...
Annotation: Arthur G. Brodeur - "The Structure and Unity of Beowulf"
A confession. I am no theory head. The finer details of what makes structuralism structuralism, or how phenomenology works, or what have...
Annotation: Christopher Tolkien - "Introduction to the Translation"
I'll save my thoughts on J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of Beowulf for another post dedicated to the translation itself. Instead, I want to...
Annotation: Robert DiNapoli - "Beowulf for Today"
It's been a good day. I was given a copy of Eaters of the Dead, and I've read through the frame narrative's introduction. Michael...
Annotation: M. Wendy Hennequin - "We've Created a Monster: The Strange Case of Grendel's Mother"
Rounding out the trio of articles that most clearly question the monstrosity of Grendel's Mother, it's interesting to note the...
Annotation: Christine Alfano - "The Issue of Feminine Monstrosity"
Since the last annotation I put up was of Signe Carlson's "The Monsters of Beowulf," it seemed appropriate to continue along the path she...
My stack of Beowulfs - Meghan Purvis Preface annotation
I have a problem. What that problem is depends on the angle you look at it from, though. Some might look at this problem and say "You...
Beowulfiana
This all started when I submitted a proposal for Kalamazoo 2020. Obviously, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kalamazoo 2020 has been...
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