ABSTRACT
Eric Stanley’s most recent book, In the Foreground: ‘Beowulf’, ends with a postscript, which is justified in the following terms:
Many books on Old English literature and on many other subjects have a last chapter with the title ‘Conclusion(s)’, in German even Fazit or Ergebnisse ‘Result(s)’, as if there were something solid at the end of it all…. This book… has this final brief chapter called ‘Postscript’: everything dissolved, nothing resolved, nothing solved, no conclusion. 1
