Seminar für Englische Philologie
Universität Göttingen


HAUPTSEMINAR:
BEOWULF

WS 10/11
Wd 14-16, VG 4.106
Oliver M. Traxel


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Here is a highly selective bibliography containing some publications on Beowulf which are relevant to this seminar. Most of them may be found in my semester apparatus in the SEP. A more detailed bibliography is available at Stud IP.

The course bibliography is divided into four parts:

1. FACSIMILES

Malone, K., ed., The Nowell Codex, EEMF 12 (Copenhagen, 1963)

Zupitza, J., ed., Beowulf, 2nd ed., EETS os 245 (Oxford, 1959)


back to top



2. EDITION

Jack, G., ed., Beowulf: a Student Edition (Oxford, 1994)


back to top



3. TRANSLATIONS

Bradley, S. A. J., trans., Anglo-Saxon Poetry (London, 1982), pp. 408-94

Heaney, S., trans., Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, ill. ed. J. E. Niles (New York and London, 2008)


back to top



4. PRESENTATION MATERIAL

Baker, P.S., ed., The Beowulf Reader, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 1 (New York, 2000)

Bjork, R. E., and J. E. Niles, ed., The Beowulf Handbook (Exeter, 1997)

Fry, D. K., ed., Finnsburh Fragment and Episode (London, 1974)

Orchard, A., A Critical Companion to Beowulf (Cambridge, 2003)

Rauer, C., Beowulf and the Dragon (Cambridge, 2000)


back to top



Go back