The Transmission of "Beowulf" : (Record no. 38155)
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| control field | MdBmJHUP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20241119120501.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 160810s2017 nyu o 00 0 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid LC control number | 2016037074 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781501708282 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781501708275 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9781501705113 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)956530373 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Neidorf, Leonard, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Transmission of "Beowulf" : |
| Remainder of title | Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Leonard Neidorf. |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Ithaca : |
| -- | Cornell University Press, |
| -- | 2017. |
| 264 #3 - | |
| -- | Baltimore, Md. : |
| -- | Project MUSE, |
| -- | 2017 |
| 264 #4 - | |
| -- | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
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| -- | text |
| -- | txt |
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| -- | rdamedia |
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| -- | online resource |
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| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Myth and poetics |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open Access |
| Standardized terminology for access restriction | Unrestricted online access |
| Source of term | star |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Beowulf, like The Iliad and The Odyssey, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances. In The Transmission of "Beowulf," Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite authorship? How substantially did scribes alter the text during its transmission, and how much time elapsed between composition and preservation?Neidorf answers these questions by distinguishing linguistic and metrical regularities, which originate with the Beowulf poet, from patterns of textual corruption, which descend from copyists involved in the poem's transmission. He argues, on the basis of archaic features that pervade Beowulf and set it apart from other Old English poems, that the text preserved in the sole extant manuscript (ca. 1000) is essentially the work of one poet who composed it circa 700. Of course, during the poem's written transmission, several hundred scribal errors crept into its text. These errors are interpreted in the central chapters of the book as valuable evidence for language history, cultural change, and scribal practice. Neidorf's analysis reveals that the scribes earnestly attempted to standardize and modernize the text's orthography, but their unfamiliarity with obsolete words and ancient heroes resulted in frequent errors. The Beowulf manuscript thus emerges from his study as an indispensible witness to processes of linguistic and cultural change that took place in England between the eighth and eleventh centuries. An appendix addresses J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, which was published in 2014. Neidorf assesses Tolkien's general views on the transmission of Beowulf and evaluates his position on various textual issues. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | In English. |
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| -- | Description based on print version record. |
| 630 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Beowulf. |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst01356023 |
| 630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Beowulf |
| General subdivision | Criticism, Textual. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Transmission of texts. |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst01154863 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Language and culture. |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst00992135 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Epic poetry, English (Old) |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst00913869 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | LITERARY CRITICISM |
| General subdivision | Medieval. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | LITERARY CRITICISM |
| General subdivision | European |
| -- | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Language and culture |
| Geographic subdivision | England |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | To 1500. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Transmission of texts |
| Geographic subdivision | England |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | To 1500. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Epic poetry, English (Old) |
| General subdivision | Criticism, Textual. |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | England. |
| Source of heading or term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst01219920 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | History. |
| Source of term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst01411628 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Source of term | fast |
| -- | (OCoLC)fst01411635 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| Relator term | distributor |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/52637/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/52637/</a> |
| 945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
| a | Project MUSE - 2017 Complete |
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| a | Project MUSE - 2017 Literature |
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