Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- PART I The poetry of an aristocratic warrior society
- 1 The chronological implications of the bond between kingship in Beowulf and kingship in practice
- 2 Society's ancient conceptions of active being and narrative living
- 3 Poetry's tradition of symbolic expression
- 4 The language of symbolic expression
- 5 Types of symbolic narrative
- 6 Basic characteristics of symbolic story
- PART II The poetry of a universal religion
- Works cited
- Index I Quotations of two or more ‘lines’ of Old English poetry
- Index II A representative selection of the symbols and word pairs cited in discussion
- Index III General
1 - The chronological implications of the bond between kingship in Beowulf and kingship in practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- PART I The poetry of an aristocratic warrior society
- 1 The chronological implications of the bond between kingship in Beowulf and kingship in practice
- 2 Society's ancient conceptions of active being and narrative living
- 3 Poetry's tradition of symbolic expression
- 4 The language of symbolic expression
- 5 Types of symbolic narrative
- 6 Basic characteristics of symbolic story
- PART II The poetry of a universal religion
- Works cited
- Index I Quotations of two or more ‘lines’ of Old English poetry
- Index II A representative selection of the symbols and word pairs cited in discussion
- Index III General
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995