Leonard Neidorf Art and Thought of the "Beowulf " Poet 9781501766909

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Автор: Leonard Neidorf
Название: Art and Thought of the "Beowulf " Poet
ISBN: 9781501766909
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

История Европы

ISBN-10: 1501766902
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.06 кг.
Дата издания: 15.01.2023
Язык: English
Размер: 237 x 161 x 24
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Poetry, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries,LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval,POETRY / Medieval
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Поставляется из: Англии
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In The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit horrendous deeds: fathers kill sons, brothers kill brothers, and wives kill husbands. Medieval Germanic poets relished the depiction of a heros unyielding response to a cruel fate, but the Beowulf poet refused to construct an epic around this traditional plot. Focusing instead on a courteous and pious protagonists fight against monsters, the poet creates a work that is deeply untraditional in both its plot and its values. In Beowulf, the kin-slayers and oath-breakers of antecedent tradition are confined to the background, while the poet fills the foreground with unconventional characters, who abstain from transgression, display courtly etiquette, and express monotheistic convictions.

Comparing Beowulf with its medieval German and Scandinavian analogues, The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet argues that the poems uniqueness reflects one poets coherent plan for the moral renovation of an amoral heroic tradition. In Beowulf, Neidorf discerns the presence of a singular mind at work in the combination and modification of heroic, folkloric, hagiographical, and historical materials. Rather than perceive Beowulf as an impersonally generated object, Neidorf argues that it should be read as the considered result of one poets ambition to produce a morally edifying, theologically palatable, and historically plausible epic out of material that could not independently constitute such a poem.

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Introduction
1. Kin-Slaying and Oath-Breaking
2. Courtesy and Courtliness
3. Monotheism and Monstrosity
Conclusion

Art and Thought of the "Beowulf " Poet, Leonard Neidorf