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100 1 $aHill, John M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83134029
245 14 $aThe narrative pulse of Beowulf :$barrivals and departures /$cJohn M. Hill.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $ax, 119 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aToronto Old English series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [111]-115) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Narrative Pulse of Beowulf: Arrivals and Departures -- $g2.$tBeowulf's Sudden Arrival and Danish Challenges: Nothing Said Is Merely a Formality -- $g3.$tThe Arrival of Joy after Grendel's Departure, and a Momentous Question: Succession or Not? -- $g4.$tBeowulf's Homecoming with 'Celeritas' and Loyalty -- $g5.$tThe Dragon's Arrival and Beowulf's Two Departures: Deep Luck Runs Out.
520 1 $a"One of the most consistent critiques levelled against Beowulf is that it lacks a steady narrative advance and that its numerous digressions tend to complicate if not halt the poem's movement. As those passages often look backward or far ahead in narrative time, they seem to transform the poem into a meditative pastiche. The Narrative Pulse of Beowulf counters this assertion, examining Beowulf as a social drama with a strong, forward-moving narrative momentum." "John M. Hill discerns a distinctive 'narrative pulse' arising out of the poem's many scenes of arrival and departure. He argues that such scenes, far from being fixed or 'type' scenes, are socially dramatic and act as a key to understanding the structural density of the poem. Bolstering his analysis with a strong understanding of the epic, Hill looks at Beowulf in relation to other stories such as The Odyssey and The Iliad, epics that, though they may appear to have a certain narrative elasticity, use scenes of arrival and departure to create a cohesive social world in which stories unfold."--BOOK JACKET.
630 00 $aBeowulf.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018834
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103289
830 0 $aToronto Old English series.
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