In the foreground
Eric Gerald Stanley
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In the foreground
Published
1994
Publisher
D.S. Brewer
Pages
273
ISBN-10
0859913945
Description
Professor E.G. Stanley is internationally famous amongst scholars of Old and Middle English for his formidable learning, incisive style and often sceptical views. The present book is an unusual, controversial and very learned attack on many past and present opinions held by scholars and critics about Old English poetry. He emphasises the limitations of our knowledge and of all readers' historical conditioning and expectations. He writes without jargon and with a crisp wit. Eric Stanley's concise survey of Beowulf scholarship and criticism is illuminating and appropriately humbling for all critics and scholars of any period; his detailed technical comments on metres and poetic diction lead to a new understanding; in particular his section on the centrality of Christian prayer, praise and thanksgiving in Old English poetry, especially Beowulf, will bring about a significant shift in the general understanding of the poem. To the end, Professor Stanley characteristically emphasises how vital are accuracy and doubt to scholarship and criticism. He exemplifies both in abundance in a book that can be read through and also frequently turned to as a reference book. This is a book that no scholar or critic of Old English poetry can afford to ignore.
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This edition of In the foreground has approximately 273 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, In the foreground typically takes between 5h 41m and 3h 48m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 68,250 words and common reading speeds.
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The estimated word count for In the foreground is approximately 68,250 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of In the foreground?
In the foreground was written by Eric Gerald Stanley.
When was In the foreground published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 1994. The original work may have been published on a different date.