Author: Earl, James W.
Title: Thinking about Beowulf
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, 1994. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi, 204 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Two Introductions: Fractal Poetry, Fractal Criticism; The Further Originality of Beowulf; The Birth & Death of Civilization: The Heroic Age in Greece & England; The End of the World; Transformations & Chaos; Oral-Literate: Two Case Histories: Transcribing Caedmon; King Alfred's Talking Poems; Beowulf & the Men's Hall; Two Psychoanalytic Excursions: Identification with the Hero; Freud & Augustine; Beowulf & the Origins of Civilization.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Medieval History, Old English, Beowulf Literature, Anthropology, Psychoanalytic, Critical Literature, Free Will Freedom, Determinism