Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition

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Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition

Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition

Name: Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition
ISBN: 9780674067257

John D. Niles

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Niles interprets "Beowulf" as a song performed before an audience, not as a text to be read by clerics. Showing its art to be formal, tradition-bound, and highly stylized, he maintains that much of its character derives from the oral heroic verse-making heritage of Anglo-Saxon poets. Distinguishing Beowulf from Old English poems of clearly monastic origin, Niles finds in it little evidence of Christian symbolism of Latin learning. Instead, it affirms, without irony, the value of heroic action in a world in which even heroes must die. Postulating a tenth-century date for "Beowulf", he offers an integrated view of this masterpiece as expressing a sophisticated poetic tradition of the post-Viking age.

Категорії:

Poetry - American Poetry

Рік:

1983

Видавництво:

Harvard University Press

Мова:

english

ISBN 10:

0674067258

ISBN 13:

9780674067257