Beowulf

Further reading

The secondary literature on Beowulf is immense. The following is a selection.

  • Anderson, Sarah, ed. (2004). Introduction and historical/cultural contexts. Longman Cultural. ISBN 978-0-321-10720-6.
  • Carruthers, Leo (2011). "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance". In Carruthers, Leo; Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen; Silec, Tatjana (eds.). Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England. Palgrave. pp. 139–55. ISBN 9780230100268.
  • Chadwick, Nora K. (1959). "The Monsters and Beowulf". In Clemoes, Peter (ed.). The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of Their History. Bowes & Bowes. pp. 171–203. OCLC 213750799.
  • Chance, Jane (1990). "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother". In Damico, Helen; Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey (eds.). New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Indiana University Press. pp. 248–261.
  • Creed, Robert P. (1990). Reconstructing the Rhythm of Beowulf. University of Missouri. ISBN 9780826207227.
  • Damico, Helen (1984). Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299095000.
  • Heaney, Seamus (2000). Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Lerer, Seth (2012). "Dragging the Monster from the Closet: Beowulf and the English Literary Tradition". Ragazine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  • Nicholson, Lewis E., ed. (1963). An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00006-6.
  • Orchard, Andy (2003b). Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-Manuscript. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1442657090.
  • Puhvel, Martin (2010). Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 9781554587698.
  • Robinson, Fred C. (2002). "The Tomb of Beowulf". The Norton Critical Edition of Beowulf: A Verse Translation, translated by Seamus Heaney and edited by Daniel Donoghue. W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 181–197.
  • Saltzman, Benjamin A. (2018). "Secrecy and the Hermeneutic Potential in Beowulf". PMLA. 133 (1): 36–55. doi:10.1632/pmla.2018.133.1.36. S2CID 165799854.
  • Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, Beowulf och Bjarke : föredrag / C. W. von Sydow. (in Swedish), Wikidata Q113518958
  • Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (2002). Drout, Michael D. C. (ed.). Beowulf and the Critics. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
  • Trask, Richard M. (1998). "Preface to the Poems: Beowulf and Judith: Epic Companions". Beowulf and Judith: Two Heroes. University Press of America. pp. 11–14.

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