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Beowulf and the Hunt [PDF]

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
The presence of hunting imagery in Beowulf has often been noted, but the significance of the figures of the stag and the wolf to the thematic design of the poem has yet to be fully explored.
Francis Leneghan
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Beowulf, the Wrath of God and the Fall of the Angels

open access: yesEnglish Studies
Beowulf’s anger has typically been viewed either negatively, as a sign of his monstrosity, or positively, as a form of furor heroicus (heroic anger). This article argues that the hero’s battle-fury is a manifestation of the wrath of God.
Francis Leneghan
exaly   +2 more sources

Metrics, Scribes, and Beowulf: A Response to Neidorf (2017), The Transmission of Beowulf

open access: yesNeophilologus, 2018
Neidorf (2017), The Transmission of Beowulf, synthesizes a variety of philological approaches to propose a new ‘lexemic theory’ of Anglo-Saxon scribal behaviour.
Nelson Goering, Goering Nelson
exaly   +2 more sources

DRUŠTVENA ULOGA ŽENA U EPU BEOWULF [PDF]

open access: yesHum, 2023
Ep Beowulf nepoznata autora, zapisan oko 1000. godine, obilježava početak staroengleske književnosti. U akademskim je tekstovima dosta zastupljen te se rad Društvena uloga žena u epu Beowulf oslanja na djela koja se bave pitanjima položaja i uloge žena u
Valentina Markasović
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From Epic Characters to a Movie Transformation: Tracing the Journey of Beowulf from Old English Poetry to Contemporary Motion Picture [PDF]

open access: yesLitinfinite, 2020
Beowulf, the tale of a celebrated hero and slayer of monsters, is the one of the finest and oldest epic poems of English literature. This poem was finally written down by an unknown poet after being passed on orally from one generation to another for ...
Trishita Gautam
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OLD ENGLISH LEXEME ÆÐELING IN THE GLOSSARIES AND IN THE TEXT OF THE POEM BEOWULF

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023
Background. The Old English poem Beowulf is one of the samples of the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the culture. This work keeps secrets that attract attention of culture experts, historians, linguists, including lexicographers.
Ekaterina A. Krupina
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Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic

open access: yesText Matters, 2021
Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem.
Nurten Birlik
doaj   +1 more source

FUNCTIONAL NAMES IN “BEOWULF”: AN ANALYSIS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2019
Functional Names in Beowulf: An Analysis. Proper names lose their connection with the initial referent of the word, being devoid of their character of semantic predicates.
Mihaela BUZEC
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A Comparative Analysis of Fiction and Epic Features in Shahnameh and Beowulf [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2017
Beowulf is the oldest and greatest work of epic literature in England which was composed in old English language. Its major hero`s name is Beowulf. The name of the major hero of Shahnameh is Rostam. As Beowulf and Shahnameh have considerable similarities,
Mohammad Alijani, Mohammad Ahi
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Beowulf

open access: yes, 2012
Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and ...
Hadbawnik, David, Meyer, Thomas
openaire   +4 more sources

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