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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Beowulf
(Anonymous Old English epic poem, c. 678)
Editions
Beowulf. In Ms. Cotton Vitellius A xv. (Beowulf Ms., c. 1000).
Beowulf. Ed. Jónsson Thorkelin. 1815.
Beowulf. Metrical trans. by John R. Clark Hall. Cambridge, 1914.
Beowulf. Ed. James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp. Online at Wikisource
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beowulf_%28Harrison_and_Sharp%29
2013
The Oldest English Epic [Beowulf.] Metrical trans. by Francis B. Gummere. New York, 1929.
Beowulf. Metrical trans. by Charles W. Kennedy. Oxford, 1940.
Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. A Translation into Modern English Prose, by J. Clark Hall and C. L. Wrenn. With Prefatory Remarks by J. R. R. Tolkien. 2nd ed. London, 1950.
_____. Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment. Ed. C. L. Wrenn. 2nd ed. London, 1958.
_____. Beowulf. Ed. C. L. Wrenn. 1953. Rev. W. F. Bolton. 1973.
Beowulf. Ed. F. Klaeber. 1922. Rpt.
Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg. Ed. F. Klaeber. 1922. 3rd ed., with suppl. Boston and London: D.C. Heath, 1950.
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English. Trans. Edwin Morgan. Hand and Flower Press, 1952. Rpt. U of California P, 1962. Rpt. Manchester: Carcanet, 2002.
Beowulf: A New Prose Translation. Trans. E. T. Donaldson . New York: Norton, 1966.
_____. Beowulf: A Prose Translation. Trans. E. Talbot Donaldson. 2nd ed. Ed. Nicholas Howe. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2002.
Beowulf. Ed. J. R. R. Tolkien, E. V. Gordon, and N. Davis. 2nd ed. 1967.
Beowulf and Its Analogues. Trans. G. N. Garmonsway and J. Simpson. London and New York, 1968.
Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English.Trans. Edwin Morgan. Hand and Flower Press, 1952. Rpt. U of California P, 1962.
Beowulf. Facsimile ed. with transcription. Ed. N. Davis. Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1966.
Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition. Ed. Howell D. Chickering, Jr. New York: Doubleday-Anchor, 1977.
Beowulf: A Verse Tranlation by Michael Alexander. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. 1995.
Beowulf. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.
Beowulf: A Student Edition. Ed. George Jack. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Beowulf and Grendel. (Penguin 60s Classics). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Beowulf. Read in Anglo-Saxon by Trevor Eaton. Two CDs. Wadhurst: Pavilion Records, 1997.
Beowulf: An Edition. Ed. Bruce Mitchell and Fred Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Beowulf. Trans. and introd. Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.
_____. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. Trans. Seamus Heaney. Bilingual ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
_____. Beowulf. Trans. Seamus Heaney. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Vol. 1. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 29-99.*
_____. Beowulf: A Verse Translation. Trans. Seamus Heaney. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. (Norton Critical Edition). New York: Norton, 2002.
Beowulf. Trans. Kevin Crossley-Holland. Ed. Heather O'Donoghue. (Oxford World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
Beowulf: Facing Page Translation. Trans. R. M. Liuzza. Broadview Press, 2012.
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. By J. R. R. Tolkien and C. Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, 2014.
Beowulf (cover: Beowulf: La saga épica en la que se basa la película…). Trans. and notes Armando Roa Vidal. Barcelona: Norma-Belacqva, 2007.*
Beowulf. Finnish translation by Osmo Pekonen and Clive Tolley. Porvoo (Finland), 1999.
Beowulf. Galician trans. and introd. Jorge L. Bueno Alonso. (Coleción vetera nº 4). Rinoceronte Editora , 2010.
Criticism
Alfano, Christine. "The Issue of Feminine Monstrosity: A Revaluation of Grendel's Mother." Comitatus 23 (1992): 1-16.
Bateson, F. W. "Beowulf and All That." In Bateson, Essays in Critical Dissent. London: Longman, 1972. 221-24.*
Berendsohn, Walter. (Jewish German critic, refugee in Sweden 1943). (On Beowulf). 1935. In Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Bjork, R. E., and J. D. Niles, A Beowulf Handbook. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1997.
Bjork, R. E., R. D. Fulk and J. D. Niles, eds. Klaeber’s Beowulf. U of Toronto P, 2008.
Bravo, Antonio. "Las figuras fantásticas del Beowulf como símbolos de los elementos adversos de la naturaleza." In Miscel-lània homenatge Enrique García Díez. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia / Consellería de Cultura, Educació i Ciència de la Generalitat Valenciana, 1991. 43-50.*
_____. "El significado de Dreorig en Beowulf." Proceedings of the XIXth International Conference of AEDEAN. Ed. Javier Pérez Guerra et al. Vigo: Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana da Universidade de Vigo, 1996. 163-68.*
Bliss, A. J. The Metre of Beowulf. Oxford, 1968.
Bonjour, A. The Digressions in Beowulf. Oxford, 1950.
Bueno Alonso, Jorge Luis. La épica de la Inglaterra anglosajona: Historia y textos desde el auge de Mercia al declive de la monarquía (750-1016). Foreword by Santiago Corugedo. Vigo: U de Vigo, Servizo de Publicacións, 2007.
Chambers, R. W. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem. 1921.
_____. Beowulf: An Introduction. With a supplement by C. L. Wrenn. 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1953. 1959.
_____. "Beowulf and the 'Heroic Age' in England." In Chambers, Man's Unconquerable Mind. London: Cape, 1939. 53-69.*
Clark, George. Beowulf. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
Conybeare, John Josias. (On Beowulf). 1826. Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Dale, Thomas. (On Beowulf). 1845. Select. in Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Damico, Helen. Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1984.
Dockray-Miller, Mary. Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000. (Bede, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf).
Dokou, Christina. "Grendelle: Beowulf's Dead Mother." European English Messenger 7.2 (1998): 44-48.*
Donoghue, Daniel. "On the Non-Integrity of Beowulf." Selim 1 (1991): 29-44.*
Dragland, S. L. "Monster-Man in Beowulf." Neophilologus 61 (1977): 606-18.
Frantzen, Allen J. Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, c. 1998.
Fulk, R. D., ed. The Beowulf Manuscript. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 2010.
García Landa, José Angel. "Beowulf." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 17 Sept. 2013.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/beowulf.html
2013
_____. "Orientations (Beowulf)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 Sept. 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/orientations-beowulf.html
2015
Garmonsway, G. N., et al. Beowulf and Its Analogues. 1968.
Godden, Malcolm, and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 2013.
Greenfield, Stanley B. "A Touch of the Monstrous in the Hero, or Beowulf Re-Marvellized." English Studies 63.4 (August 1982): 294-307.
Grein, Christian. (On Beowulf). 1862. Select. in Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Grundtvig, Nikolai. (On Beowulf). Early 19th c. Select. in Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Iglesias-Rabade, Luis. "Beowulf: Some Examples of Binary Structures Traditionally Punctuated as Paratactic Sequences." Selim 2 (1992): 6-30.
Irving, Edward B. Introduction to Beowulf. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1969.
_____. Rereading Beowulf. U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.
Kendall, Calvin B. The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 5). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
Lee, Alvin. Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon: Beowulf as Metaphor. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999.
Lees, Clare A. ed. Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994.
_____, ed. The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.
Lerate de Castro, Jesús. "Las combinaciones aliterativas del Beowulf en la relación señor-vasallo." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 21 (1990): 229-40.*
Lionarons, Joyce Tally. "Beowulf: Myth and Monsters." English Studies 77.1 (January 1996): 1-14.*
Lord, A. B. "Beowulf and the Odyssey." In Mediaeval and Linguistic Studies in Honour of F. P. Magoun, Jr. Ed. J. Bessinger and R. Creed. Cambridge (MA), 1968.
Masullo. "Beowulf, Lesson 2: The History of the Beowulf Poem." YouTube (MasulloEnglishUSN)
http://youtu.be/uI230HyX1DA
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Niles, John D. Beowulf and Lejre. Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007.
Niles, John D., and T. A. Shippey. (On the critical reception of Beowulf.). In Beowulf Handbook. Ed. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles.
Olivares Merino, Eugenio M. "The Old English Poem 'A Vampyre of the Fens': A Bibliographical Ghost." Miscelánea 32 (2005, issued 2006): 87-102.*
_____. "'Beowulfo', 'Geatas' and 'Heoroto': An Appraisal of the Earliest Renderings of Beowulf in Spain." Miscelánea 39 (2009): 73-102.*
Onega, Susana. "Poesía épica anglosajona: Beowulf." In Estudios literarios ingleses: Edad Media. Ed. J. F. Galván Reula. Madrid: Cátedra, 1985. 17-42.*
Orchard, Andy. "Unrecoverable Magic." Rev. of Beowulf. CD version read by Trevor Eaton. TLS June 20, 1997: 20.*
_____. A Critical Companion to Beowulf. Boydell and Brewer, 2003.
_____. Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf Manuscript. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2003.
Overing, Gillian. Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990.
Río Raigadas, David. "Las estructuras antropológicas de lo imaginario en Beowulf." Actas del XV Congreso de AEDEAN. Logroño: Colegio Universitario de La Rioja, 1993. 487-92.*
Robinson, Fred C. The Tomb of Beowulf and Other Essays on Old English. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Russom, Geoffrey. "Word and Foot in Beowulf." Style 21 (1987): 387-99.
_____. Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory. 1987.
_____. Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Shippey, T. A., and Andreas Haarder, eds. Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Sisam, K. The Structure of Beowulf. Oxford, 1965.
Stanley, Eric. The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism.
Stotesbury, John A. "Popular Re-Enactments of the Grendel Myth." In Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film. Ed. Constanza del Río-Álvaro and Luis Miguel García-Mainar. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004. 133-44.*
Thorkelin, Jónsson, ed. Beowulf. 1815. Select. in Beowulf: The Critical Heritage. Ed. T. A. Shippey and Andreas Haarder. London: Routledge, c. 1999.*
Tolkien, J. R. R. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. Oxford, 1937.
_____. "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics." In An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1963. 51-103.
_____. "Beowulf: Los monstruos y los críticos." In J. R. R. Tolkien, Los Monstruos y los Críticos y otros ensayos. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Barcelona: Minotauro / Planeta DeAgostini, 2002. 13-65.*
_____. "On Translating Beowulf." In Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics: Selected Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperColllins, 1997.
_____. "Sobre la traducción de Beowulf." In J. R. R. Tolkien, Los Monstruos y los Críticos y otros ensayos. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Barcelona: Minotauro / Planeta DeAgostini, 2002. 66-93.*
_____. The Monsters and the Critics: Selected Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperColllins, 1997.
Whitelock, D. The Audience of Beowulf. Oxford,1951.
Anthologies
Baker, Peter S., ed. The Beowulf Reader. London: Routledge, 2000.
Fulk, R. D., ed. Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
Nicholson, L. E., ed. An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1963.
Audio
Bragg, Melvyn, et al. "Beowulf." BBC (In Our Time) 5 March 2005.* Online audio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0542xt7
2015
Bibliographies
Osborn, Marijane. "Annotated List of Beowulf Translations." Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State U, Tempe.
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/web_pages/online_resources/online_resources_annotated_beowulf_bib.html
2008
Films
Beowulf. TV animated feature. Dir. Yuri Kulakov. Moscow and Cardiff: Christmas Films / Right Angle / S4C / BBC Wales / HBO, 1998. Online at YouTube.*
http://youtu.be/QKjcoFZmKuA
2014
Beowulf. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the Old English poem. Digital motion capture animated feature. Cast: Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Brendan Gleeson, Robin Wright Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Rik Young, Sebastian Roché, John Malkovich, Woody Schultz. Music by Alan Silvestri. Photog. Robert Presley. Ed. Jeremiah O'Driscoll. Prod des. Doug Chiang. Art dir. Norman Newberry, Greg Papalia. Exec prod. Roger Avary, Neil Gaiman, Martin Shafer. Assoc. prod. Jacqueline M. Lopez, Johs McLaglen, Peter M. Tobyansen. Coprod. Steven Boyd. Prod. Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis. Image Movers / Shangri-La, 2007.*
Beowulf & Grendel. Dir. Sturla Gunnarson. Very loosely inspired by Beowulf. Cast: Gerard Butler (Beowulf), Stellan Skarsgärd (Hrothgar), Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson (Grendel, Sarah Polley (Selma), Eddie Marsan, Tony Curran, Rory McCann, Ronan Vibert, Martin Delaney. Movies Downunder / Movision / Darc Light / Endgame Entertainment / Film Works / Eurasia Motion Pictures / Goodweird / Spice Factory / Icelandic Film Corporation, 2005. Online at YouTube (Shlomo Rotem)
http://youtu.be/z1QDTFFmqKg
In Spanish, YouTube (Ampii G)
http://youtu.be/vQTGQp9B_CE
2014
Internet resources
Beowulf at Wikisource
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beowulf
2013
Beowulf on Steorarume
http://www.heorot.dk/
2010
Electronic Beowulf. British Library / U of Kentucky. Ed. Kevin Kiernan. http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/
(Full-color digitized images of the original manuscript).
Literature
Gardner, John. Grendel. 1971. London: Pan/Picador, 1972. London: Robin Clark, 1991.
Morgan, Edwin. Grendel. Mariscat, 1982.
Niven, Larry, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. Beowulf's Children. 1995. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1996.
Video
Beowulf the Legendary Geatish Hero (Clash of the Gods). YouTube (DiscoveryHaven) 11 July 2013.*
http://youtu.be/-ta6v0GnPW4
2013
Voth, Grant. "Lecture 11: Beowulf." (From a course in world literature). YouTube (rikumodem)
http://youtu.be/gMAyevJi2Mo
2013
Wood, Michael. In Search of Beowulf. Documentary. YouTube (The Onoclus) 11 Oct. 2012.*
http://youtu.be/1C0sFXU0SLo
2013
Related works
Robinson, James, Teddy H. Kristiansen, and Matt Wagner. Four Devils, One Hell. (MattWagner Grendel Tales Series). Miilwaukie (OR): Dark Horse Comics, 1994.