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Beowulfiana
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Etymology
From en Beowulf -iana.
Noun
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Scholarly work treating the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
en 1936 J. R. R. Tolkien Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics Norwood Editions 1976 Norwood, Pa. 1 But I have read enough, I think, to venture an opinion that Beowulfiana is, while rich in many departments, specially poor in one.
en 1963 James R. Kreuzer and Lee Cogan Modern Writings on Major English Authors Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis 3 The experts in Beowulfiana are seldom concerned with such judgements.
en 1994 Clare A. Lees Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages University of Minnesota Press 131 Tolkien was fully aware of his intervention in mainstream Beowulfiana, and prefaces his analysis with a brief apologia[.]
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