TY  - GEN
T1  - Wolves in Beowulf and other Old English texts
T2  - Nature and environment in the Middle Ages.
A1  - Marshall, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Grace)
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1321786671
AB  - "The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus.0Two such meanings are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves and human outlaws. Tracing the history of these associations and the evidence to suggest that they were known to writers working in early medieval England, this book provides new, animal-centric readings of Wulf and Eadwacer, Abbo of Fleury and AElfric's Passiones Eadmundi, and Beowulf, placing these texts within a lupine literary network that transcends time and place. By exploring the intricate, contradictory, and even sympathetic depictions of the wolves and wolf-like entities found within these texts, this book banishes all notions of the medieval wolf as the one-dimensional, man-eating creature that it is so often understood to be."--Back cover.
OP  - 254
CN  - PR179.W64 M37 2022
SN  - 9781800106147
SN  - 1800106149
SN  - 9781800106130
SN  - 1800106130
SN  - 9781843846406
SN  - 1843846403
KW  - Wolves in literature.
KW  - English literature : Old English, ca. 450-1100 : History and criticism.
KW  - Loups dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - English literature : Old English
KW  - Wolves in literature
KW  - 450-1100
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -