{"product_id":"cultural-world-in-beowulf-9780802074386","title":"Cultural World in Beowulf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world--a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, John Hill looks at \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e from a comparative ethnological point of view. He provides a thorough examination of the socio-cultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of \u003cem\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/em\u003eto that of similarly organized cultures. Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France, as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia, a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e is illuminated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe study is divided into five major essays: on ethnology and social drama, the temporal world, the legal world, the economy of honour, and the psychological world. Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements: in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions, both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy, acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force, and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one. Family and kinship relations, revenge themes, heroic poetry, myth, legality, and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in \u003cem\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/em\u003eto the foreground, allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for Anglo-Saxon society. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John M. Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.85d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802074386\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHill, John M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John M. Hill is a professor in the English Department at the U.S. Naval Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389513478259,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6db12e7f-3a1d-43bc-b614-8f3f3d05dd16.jpg?v=1661608988","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cultural-world-in-beowulf-9780802074386","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}