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Most readers will only have encountered the poem through one of its many translations or adaptations; others have had to take it on as a translation exercise, a unique and challenging survivor from a long-gone era. This book sidesteps academic debates about the poem's unknowns - its date, provenance or author - and focusses instead on its poetic artistry, its interleaving of heroic pasts and Christian present, and its poet's extraordinary breadth of reference, from biblical history to Old Norse myth. The strange intricacies of Old English metre and poetic language are explained, and the poet's evocation of the ethics and material world of an imagined pre-Viking Scandinavia is explored.
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero follows the story of the poem through its many interwoven voices from different times and places, and the poem emerges as a work of reflective beauty, its human characters full of touching pathos and wisdom, its notorious monsters still speaking to our own societies' abiding insecurities. The final section, on post-medieval responses to Beowulf, shows how the poem has been taken up as a European cultural icon. This book restores its status as a literary masterpiece.
Most readers will only have encountered the poem through one of its many translations or adaptations; others have had to take it on as a translation exercise, a unique and challenging survivor from a long-gone era. This book sidesteps academic debates about the poem's unknowns - its date, provenance or author - and focusses instead on its poetic artistry, its interleaving of heroic pasts and Christian present, and its poet's extraordinary breadth of reference, from biblical history to Old Norse myth. The strange intricacies of Old English metre and poetic language are explained, and the poet's evocation of the ethics and material world of an imagined pre-Viking Scandinavia is explored.
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero follows the story of the poem through its many interwoven voices from different times and places, and the poem emerges as a work of reflective beauty, its human characters full of touching pathos and wisdom, its notorious monsters still speaking to our own societies' abiding insecurities. The final section, on post-medieval responses to Beowulf, shows how the poem has been taken up as a European cultural icon. This book restores its status as a literary masterpiece.
Part One: The Storyworld
1. The Setting
2. The Human Characters
3. The Monsters
Part Two: Poet, Narrator and Scop
4. A Christian Poet
5. An Old Norse Scholar
6. The Narrator
7. The ScopPart Three: Post-Medieval Meanings
8. Earliest Audiences
9. Early Modern Audiences
10. Translations
11. Contemporary Meanings
Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781788312882 |
| ISBN-10: | 1788312880 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | O'Donoghue, Heather |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 254 x 162 x 2 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Heather O'Donoghue |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.06.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,445 kg |
Part One: The Storyworld
1. The Setting
2. The Human Characters
3. The Monsters
Part Two: Poet, Narrator and Scop
4. A Christian Poet
5. An Old Norse Scholar
6. The Narrator
7. The ScopPart Three: Post-Medieval Meanings
8. Earliest Audiences
9. Early Modern Audiences
10. Translations
11. Contemporary Meanings
Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9781788312882 |
| ISBN-10: | 1788312880 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | O'Donoghue, Heather |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Maße: | 254 x 162 x 2 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Heather O'Donoghue |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.06.2024 |
| Gewicht: | 0,445 kg |
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