Beasts of Time: Apocalyptic BeowulfP. Lang, 1994 - 165 Seiten Over time the reputation of Beowulf as a poem continues to rise. Extant in only one manuscript, yet perhaps the most studied of English poems, it represents a remarkable text and artifact: the first European vernacular epic. And like much of the work of its age, Beowulf exhibits a strong native strain of apocalypticism, a pervasive awareness of the imminence of end-times. The chief source of its apocalyptic power, the poem's beasts, haunts the reader; one cannot depart the poem without a sense that the monsters and heroes continue their battle into the present and beyond. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Apocalyptic Backgrounds | 15 |
Beowulfs Tripartite Apocalypticism | 83 |
Urheberrecht | |
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allegorical allusions Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse of Thomas apocalypticism appearance argues audience battle beasts Bede Bede's Beowulf poet Beowulf's death biblical century Christ Christian Christian and Germanic commentaries cosmological courage critics culture Danes deeds destruction dragon Dronke earth earthly end-times epic eschatological fame fate fight finally fire follows funeral Geatland Geats genre Germanic and Christian glory Gosforth Cross Grendel Grendel's mother Heaven Hell Heorot Herebeald Heremod hero's heroic heroism Homilies Hroðgar's Hroðulf human Hygelac's imminent influence interpretation janusian Judgment Day killed king literature lord McGinn medieval metaphor monsters motif Muspilli myth narrative Norse Óðin Óðin's Old English poetry one's pagan perhaps poem poem's poet's praise present prophecy prophetic Ragnarök reader reading recapitulation represents Revelation salvation Scyld secular seek seems sense Sigemund signs of doom society soul stanza suggests symbol theme Tolkien tradition transience treasure Tyconius Valhöll valkyrie violent vision Völuspá warrior Wealhþeow Wiglaf Þór
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