TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neidorf,Leonard
TI  - The transmission of Beowulf: language, culture, and scribal behavior 
T2  - Myth and poetics II
SN  - 9781501708282
AV  - PR1586 .T736 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Beowulf
KW  - Criticism, Textual
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; THE TRANSMISSION OF BEOWULF; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword by Gregory Nagy; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 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 Significance4. 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; Appendix: J. R. R. Tolkien's Beowulf Textual Criticism; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index of Verses; Index of Subjects; 2; b
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