Reading list for ENGL10051 Mapping the Medieval

ENGL10051    MAPPING THE MEDIEVAL 2013-14

Bibliography for Beowulf

Set text, to buy and read before the course begins:

SWANTON, Michael, ed., Beowulf: edited with an introduction, notes and new prose translation (from the Anglo-Saxon), Manchester, University Press, revised edition, 1997.

 

Other useful translations of Beowulf:

BRADLEY, S. A. J.,  Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Everyman Series, London, Dent, 1982.

HEANEY, S.,  Beowulf,  London, Faber and Faber, 1999.

           

Criticism on Beowulf:

BAKER, P.  ed.,  Beowulf:  basic readings, New York & London, 1995.

BJORK, R. E. and NILES, J. D.  ed., A Beowulf Handbook, Lincoln, Nebraska,  1997.

BLOMFIELD, J., 'The style and structure of Beowulf', Review of English Studies, 14, 1938, pp. 396-403. 

BONJOUR,  A., The Digressions in Beowulf, Oxford, 1965

CABANISS, A., 'Beowulf and the Liturgy', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 54, 1955, pp. 195-201

CHASE, C., ed., The Dating of Beowulf, Toronto, 1981.

GARMONSWAY, G. N.  and Simpson, J., Analogues to Beowulf, London, 1968.

GEORGE, J.-A., Beowulf: a reader’s guide to essential criticism, London, 2010

GOLDSMITH, M. The Mode and Meaning of Beowulf, London, 1970.

IRVING, E. B., A Readingof Beowulf, New Haven, 1968.

KIERNAN, K., Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript, New Brunswick, 1984.

LEYERLE, J., 'The interlace structure of Beowulf', University of Toronto Quarterly, 37, 1967, pp. 1-17.

MAGENNIS, H., Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Cambridge 2011.  

NEIDORF, L., ‘VII Æthelred and the Genesis of the Beowulf Manuscript’, Philological Quarterly, 89, Spring 2010, pp. 119-39. 

NICHOLSON, L. E., ed., An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism, Notre Dame 1963.

NILES, J. D., Beowulf: the poem and its tradition, Cambridge, Mass and London, 1983.

O'BRIEN O'KEEFE, K., 'Heroic values and Christian ethics', The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed. M. Godden and M. Lapidge, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 107-125.  AVAILABLE ON BLACKBOARD

ORCHARD, A., A Critical Companion to Beowulf, Cambridge, 2003.

ORCHARD, A., Pride and prodigies: studies in the monsters of the Beowulf manuscript, Cambridge,  1995.

OVERING, G. R., 'The Women of Beowulf: a context for interpretation', Beowulf; Basic Readings, ed. P. S. Baker, New York and London, 1995, pp. 219-60.

OWEN-CROCKER, G. R., The Four Funerals in Beowulf: and the structure of the poem, Manchester 2000.

ROBINSON. F. C. Beowulf and the Appositive Style, Knoxville, 1985.

ROBINSON. F. C. 'Beowulf', The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed. M. Godden and M. Lapidge, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 142-159. AVAILABLE ON BLACKBOARD

ROGERS, H. L., 'Beowulf's three great fights', Review of English Studies, new series 6, 1955, pp. 339-55. 

SAUNDERS, C., ed,  A Companion to Medieval Poetry, Chichester, 2010. 

SCRAGG, D. G., 'The Nature of Old English Verse', The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed. M. Godden and M. Lapidge, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 55-70 AVAILABLE ON BLACKBOARD

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. 'Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics' (1971) reproduced in L. Nicholson, An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism  Notre Dame, 1963, pp.51-103, http://eml.manchester.ac.uk/lib/ENGL10051/ENGL10051_8752.pdf

TONDSFELDT, H. W., 'Ring structure in Beowulf', Neophilologus, 61, 1977, 443-52. 

WATERHOUSE, R., 'Beowulf as Palimpsest', in Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Minneapolis and London, 1996.

Some web sites:

Electronic Introduction to Old English by Peter Baker: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html

Bosworth and Toller, Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/bosworth.htm 

Please note: to navigate around the dictionary you must click onto one of the Old English letters that appear on the far right of the screen; this opens, on the left, a list of the range of words for each page. 

http://greenehamlet.com/beowulf.html

http://www.beowulftranslations.net/

http://www.the britishmuseum.org  then follow up links to Sutton Hoo objects

 

 

Bibliography for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

Set text to buy

Winny, James (ed. and trans.), Sir Gawain and the

Green Knight (1992; Hadleigh, Essex: Broadview Press, repr. 2006)

 

Criticism on Sir Gawain

Winny, James, ‘Introduction’, in Winny, James (ed. and trans.), Sir Gawain and the

Green Knight (1992; Hadleigh, Essex: Broadview Press, repr. 2006), pp. vii-xxi.

 Barron, W. R. J., The English Medieval Romance (London: Longman, 1987).

Brewer, Derek and Jonathan Gibson (eds), A Companion to the Gawain-Poet (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997).

Fulton, Helen (ed.), A Companion to Arthurian Literature (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Hardman, Phillipa, ‘Gawain’s Practice of Piety in  Sir Gawain and the Green

Knight’, Medium Aevum, 68:2 (Fall 1999), pp. 247 ff.

Krueger, Roberta L., The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Lindley, Arthur, ‘Pinning Gawain down: The Misediting of Sir Gawain and the

Green Knight’; , The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 96:1 (January

1997), pp. 26 – (17).

Moll, Richard J., ‘Frustrated Readers and Conventional Decapitation in Sir

Gawain and the Green Knight’, The Modern Language Review, 97:4 (Oct. 2002), pp. 793-802.

Putter, Ad, An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet (London: Longman, 1996).

Whiteford, Peter, ‘Rereading Gawain’s Five Wits’, Medium Aevum, 73:2 (Fall

2004), pp. 225 - (10).

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