Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period Hilary White

Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period Hilary WhiteEighteen essays by some of the most prominent British and North American students of heroic poetry, plus two poems and a bibliography, are gathered here to honor Jess B. Bessinger Jr., whose innovative studies of heroic poetry have instructed a generation of scholars and whose performances of Anglo Saxon poems are legendary.

Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration

Examines the transformation of public services in different varieties of capitalism

translations

Drawing on a range of work from across disciplines

based on the author’s own experiences and reflections on the genre

promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes

He runs a consultancy helping banks and solicitors to identify and locate beneficiaries

researchers and practitioners of theatre and performance

she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist

Analyses the way that New Labour was built and sustained under Blair’s leadership

and trends such as films made in the provinces

with an additional chapter on ‘post-industrial’ cities such as Belfast