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The transmission of Beowulf : language, culture, and scribal behavior / Leonard Neidorf

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Neidorf, Leonard
Published:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Physical Description:
xviii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.The Duration of Transmission -- 2.The Detection of Scribal Error -- 3.Meter and Alliteration -- 4.Probabilistic Reasoning -- 5.General Prefatory Remarks -- 2.Language History -- 1.Diachronic Variation -- 2.Dialectal Variation -- 3.Syntactic Misconstruction -- 4.Trivialization -- 5.Interpolation -- 3.Cultural Change -- 1.Obliteration of Personal Names -- 2.Obliteration of Ethnic Names -- 3.Erroneous Spacing -- 4.Scribal Self-Correction -- 5.Chronological Significance -- 4.Scribal Behavior -- 1.The Lexemic Theory -- 2.Competing Theories -- 3.Variation in Parallel Texts -- 4.The Four Poetic Codices -- 5.Theory and Evidence -- 5.Conclusion -- 1.The Unity of Beowulf -- 2.Linguistic Regularities -- 3.Methodological Considerations -- 4.Textual Criticism -- 5.Manuscript Context.
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ISBN:
9781501705113 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1501705113
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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