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019 _a(OCoLC)1013946581
019 _a(OCoLC)1399979735
020 _a9780802074386
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020 _a9781442623033
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024 7 _a10.3138/9781442623033
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442623033
035 _a(DE-B1597)465630
035 _a(OCoLC)944178883
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aPR1585
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072 7 _aLIT011000
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082 0 4 _a829/.3
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHill, John
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Cultural World in Beowulf /
_cJohn Hill.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1995]
264 4 _c©1995
300 _a1 online resource (234 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aAnthropological Horizons
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aBeowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world-a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, John Hill looks at Beowulf from a comparative ethnological point of view. He provides a thorough examination of the socio-cultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of Beowulf to that of similarly organized cultures. Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France, as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia, a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different Beowulf is illuminated.The study is divided into five major essays: on ethnology and social drama, the temporal world, the legal world, the economy of honour, and the psychological world. Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements: in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions, both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy, acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force, and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one. Family and kinship relations, revenge themes, heroic poetry, myth, legality, and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in Beowulf to the foreground, allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for Anglo-Saxon society.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCivilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
650 0 _aCivilization, Germanic.
650 0 _aEpic poetry, English (Old)
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and anthropology
_zEngland.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442623033
856 4 2 _3Cover
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