J.R.R. Tolkien's 1936 lecture to the British Academy, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," altered the trajectory of Beowulf studies. It has been deemed "the single most influential article ever written on Beowulf in the poem's 200-year critical history." Beyond its influence on ...
2007年 《胡林的子女》(The Children of Húrin) 2009年 《西古尔德与古德露恩》(The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún) 2013年 《亚瑟王的陨落》(The Fall of Arthur) 2014年 《贝奥武甫:翻译与评注》(Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary) 2017年 《贝伦与露西恩》(Beren and Lúthien) 2018年 《刚多林的...
The abyss was in tumult with the waves and the surges of the winter. Seven nights ye two laboured in the waters’ realm. He overmatched thee in swimming, he had greater strength! Then on the morrow-tide the billows bore him away…” That’s Beowulf in Tolkienese: not the saga-like ...
‘Beowulf:the Monsters and the Critics’ The piece which provides the volume’s title is J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture to the British Academy on ‘Beowulf:the Monsters and the Critics’. This lecture entirely changed the course ofBeowulfstudies, and is one of the most frequently cited ...
Tolkien assembled in this new paperback edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien s work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all. Two of them are concerned with Beowulf , including the well-known ...
J.R.R. Tolkien's 1936 lecture to the British Academy, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," altered the trajectory of Beowulf studies. It has been deemed "the single most influential article ever written on Beowulf in the poem's 200-year critical history." Beyond its influence on Beowu...
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Notable among these are his essays "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), "Chaucer as a Philologist [a person who studies language as it relates to culture]: The Reeve's Tale" (1934), and "On Fairy-Stories"(1947); his scholarly edition of Ancrene Wisse (1962); and his ...
Obviously the extent of this fame is due to Tolkien's authorship of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but Tolkien's academic reputation rests upon some very secure foundations: even if he had only ever written "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" and no other papers, he would ...