id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt gh93gx44v0p Richard Fahey Enigmatic Design and Psychomachic Monstrosity in Beowulf 2019 .txt text/plain 313 9 25 This dissertation reads and interprets Beowulf in the historical and intellectual context of Latin learning and elementary education and argues for possible riddling rhetorical strategies and psychomachic allegory in the Old English poem. This project considers especially the Old English Riddles located in the Exeter Book and suggests that rhetorical strategies featured in Anglo-Saxon riddles (and enigmata) may operate also in Beowulf and constitute an enigmatic design in the poem. cache/gh93gx44v0p.txt txt/gh93gx44v0p.txt