Essays on Old, Middle, modern English and Old Icelandic /

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Imprint:Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2000.
Description:521 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4271170
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Other authors / contributors:Tripp, Raymond P. (Raymond Paul), 1932-
Gruber, Loren C.
Gruber, Meredith Crellin.
Jember, Gregory K.
ISBN:0773478582
Notes:Essays in honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.
Publications of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (p. [511]-521).
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.
  • Old English and Medieval Latin Studies
  • The Begang of Cynewulf's "Fates of the Apostles"
  • "Think of Wulfstan": The Author of Beowulf
  • A Bede Bibliography Preview: Hymn 6: In Ascensione Domini
  • "Blow these vipers from me": Mythic Magic in The Nine Herbs Charm
  • Beowulf and the (In)effectiveness of the Ancient "Curse"
  • Irony in Beowulf
  • Hell, Heaven, and the Failures of Genesis B
  • Old English Poetic Vocabulary: "The formal word precise but not pedantic"
  • The Dragon in Beowulf: Cain's Seed, Heresy, and Islam
  • "An Insight of Form": New Genres in Four Exeter Book Riddles
  • Old Icelandic and Medieval German Studies
  • The Voyage to Byzantium: Evidence from the Sagas
  • "Sometimes the Dragon Wins": Unsuccessful Dragon Fighters in Medieval Literature
  • The Valkyrie Reflex in Havelok the Dane
  • Figures of Female Cover on Medieval Germanic Landscapes
  • Middle English Studies
  • The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
  • Topical Argument in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
  • An Introduction to a Textual Comparison of Troilus and Criseyde
  • Some Riddles about The Death of Blanche with Hints for a Few Answers
  • Early and Late Modern English Studies
  • Satan the Navigator
  • Beowulf Lives--And So Do His Worthy Adversaries: Archetypes and Diction, Both Old and New
  • Publications of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.