John Grigsby
Teoksen Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England's Oldest Legend tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1971
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Dover, Kent, England, UK
- Ammatit
- author
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 6
- Jäseniä
- 185
- Suosituimmuussija
- #117,260
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 4
- ISBN:t
- 10
- Kielet
- 2
While not being convinced by all of his conclusions about the origins of the Beowulf story, there is a lot of interesting background and evocation of the Anglo-Saxon period. Whether you agree with the author's analysis or not, if you are interested in Beowulf, I think you would find this book worthy of a little of your time.
EDIT: Having asked for and kindly received expert opinion on the evidential quality and robustness of Grigsby's hypothesis, I've downgraded my rating by one star to three stars. As a non-acedemic I did enjoy reading it, so in fairness cannot knock any more off, but it seems the misgivings I spoke of above were justified.… (lisätietoja)