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Product Description: This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature...read more

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9781137325808 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 18, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book introduces lexomics, the use of computer-aided statistical analysis of vocabulary, to measure influence and integrate research from cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology with traditional, philological approaches to literature.

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9780300024265, titled "Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry: A Study of the Traditions" | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1980, cover price $37.50 | also contains Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry: A Study of the Traditions

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9781284023206 | Pap/psc edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, October 19, 2012), cover price $84.95

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9780521519472 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 25, 2011, cover price $89.99

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9780521734653 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 11, 2011, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: `An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture'. Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists...read more
By David Clark (editor) and Nicholas Perkins (editor)

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9781843842514 | Ds Brewer, October 21, 2010, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: `An excellent collection.

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Product Description: In emulation of Professor Eamonn O Carragain, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline...read more
By Alastair Minnis (editor) and Jane Roberts (editor)

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9782503518190 | Brepols Pub, January 30, 2008, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: In emulation of Professor Eamonn O Carragain, who has, over the last few decades, demonstrated how words and images together join in that extraordinary cultural achievement which is the Ruthwell Cross, the volume seeks to transcend the established methods of the single discipline.

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Product Description: Composed around 1000 CE, this title is among the longest-known poems written in Old English. It tells of the heroic deeds of the great warrior Beowulf, and contains both Christian and pagan symbolism.
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791094327 | Chelsea House Pub, January 1, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Composed around 1000 CE, this title is among the longest-known poems written in Old English.
9780791093016 | 2 updated edition (Chelsea House Pub, January 1, 2007), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of critical essays on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, analyzing its structure, monsters, Christian and pagan elements, and ideas of myth and history.
9780877549048 | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 1987, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays on the epic poem, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication

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9780791041123 | Chelsea House Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Bloom's Reviews are a acclaimed advancement to the standard chapter-by-chapter plot summaries provided by most study guides.
9780791040829 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1996, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Includes information about the author of 'Beowulf,' thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas

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9780791040539 | Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Includes information about the author of 'Beowulf,' thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas

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Product Description: This work includes twenty-four essays including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism...read more
By Bruce D. Gilchrist (editor), Eileen A. Joy (editor) and Mary K. Ramsey (editor)

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9781933202082 | West Virginia Univ Pr, December 31, 2006, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This work includes twenty-four essays including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

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9780521551830 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $149.99

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9780521030267 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006, cover price $69.99

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Product Description: The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Robert E. Bjork (editor)

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9780415937542 | Routledge, July 1, 2001, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.

Product Description: Heroic Poetry provides a wide-ranging introduction to selected aspects of Britain's principal works of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry regarding their dating, method of composition, and use as historical sources. The historical and cultural context in which these poems were composed is recounted by examining court poets and their poetry, and the importance that they were accorded by the warrior-elite for whom they sang...read more

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9780761806066 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 1997, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: Heroic Poetry provides a wide-ranging introduction to selected aspects of Britain's principal works of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry regarding their dating, method of composition, and use as historical sources.

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9780761818984 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 2001, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Heroic Poetry provides a wide-ranging introduction to selected aspects of Britain's principal works of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry regarding their dating, method of composition, and use as historical sources.

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries. (view table of contents)

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9780300045123 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England.

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9780268034634 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Mary P. Richards (editor)

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9780815301004 | Taylor & Francis, October 1, 1994, cover price $80.00

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9780815335672 | Routledge, November 1, 2000, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: First published in 2001.

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By Andreas Haarder (editor) and T. A. Shippey (editor)

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9780415029704 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $330.00

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9781138009103 | Routledge, July 17, 2014, cover price $54.95 | also contains Beowulf: The Critical Heritage

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Contains a collection of essays examining the epic poem in a cultural and social context, as well as essays dealing with thematic and structural issues

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9781565108127 | Greenhaven Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Contains a collection of essays examining the epic poem in a cultural and social context, as well as essays dealing with thematic and structural issues

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9781565108134 | Greenhaven Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Contains a collection of essays examining the epic poem in a cultural and social context, as well as essays dealing with thematic and structural issues

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Product Description: Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods currently being used and developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English. It is the first collection of its kind in the field and is a timely book, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method and practice of critical reading in recent years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521465755 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods currently being used and developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English.

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9780521469708 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods currently being used and developed for reading and analyzing writings in Old English.

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9780804717007 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $57.95

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9780804727952, titled "Thinking About 'Beowulf" | Reprint edition (Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1996), cover price $23.95

By Robert E. Bjork (editor)

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9780815317586 | Routledge, June 1, 1996, cover price $120.00

Product Description: Beowulf 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...read more

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9780802029812 | Univ of Toronto Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language.

Paperback:

9780802074386 | Univ of Toronto Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $28.95

Product Description: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780815300977 | Routledge, August 1, 1994, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: First published in 1994.

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Product Description: "[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." —Women’s Studies Network (UK) Association NewsletterThese dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text...read more

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9780253208583 | Indiana Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature.

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Product Description: This is a study of the history of critical approaches to Old English literature. Its special focus is the Old English epic, "Beowulf", but it ranges widely over Old English verse and prose in general, post-Anglo-Saxon English, and numerous critical writings relating to its subject...read more

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9780859913942 | Ds Brewer, May 1, 1994, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: This is a study of the history of critical approaches to Old English literature.

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Product Description: Book by Damico, Helen
By Jess B. Bessinger (editor), Helen Damico and John Leyerle (editor)

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9781879288270 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, August 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Book by Damico, Helen

Paperback:

9781879288287 | Western Michigan Univ Medieval, August 1, 1993, cover price $52.95

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