The hero recovered : essays on medieval heroism in honor of George Clark ; [papers from a special session at the 38th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2003]

The hero recovered essays on medieval heroism in honor of George Clark ; [papers from a special session at the 38th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2003]

Introduction -- Part 1. The hero and legend. Thought in Beowulf and our perception of it: interiority, power, and the problem of the revealed mind / Sarah L. Higley; Transforming the hero: Beowulf and the conversion of Hunferth / Judy King; The king and the warrior: Hrothgar's sitting masculini...

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Körperschaft: International Congress on Medieval Studies (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Waugh, Robin (HerausgeberIn), Clark, George (GefeierteR), Weldon, James (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Kalamazoo Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University 2010
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Clark, George 1932- > Clark, George > Heroes in literature > Festschrift > Konferenzschrift > Altenglisch > Beowulf > Altisländisch > Held > Literatur > Kalamazoo, Mich. <2003> > Englisch > Isländisch > Geschichte 980-1970
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction -- Part 1. The hero and legend. Thought in Beowulf and our perception of it: interiority, power, and the problem of the revealed mind / Sarah L. Higley; Transforming the hero: Beowulf and the conversion of Hunferth / Judy King; The king and the warrior: Hrothgar's sitting masculinity / John M. Hill -- Part 2. The hero and history. Oaths in The battle of Maldon / Stephen J. Harris; Heroic saint and saintly hero: The Passio Sancti Eadmundi and The battle of Maldon / Paul Cavill -- Part 3. The hero and conventions. Studies of Old Norse literature. Proverbs and proverbiousness in Hrafnkels saga Freysgoða / Tom Shippey; The sagas in the straitjacket of genre / Theodore M. Andersson; The proverbs of Vatnsdela saga and the sword of Jokull: the oral backgrounds of Grettir Ásmundarson's flawed heroism / Richard L. Harris -- Part 4. The hero across time: from the Middle ages to the modern era. Vixen as hero: solving Exeter Book riddle 15 / Marijane Osborn; Courage and sexual anxiety in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica / Andrew Taylor; The child, the primitive, and the medieval: making medieval heroes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Anna Smol; Jónas Hallgrímsson's Verses of Icelanders (Vísur Íslendinga) / Dick Ringler; Heroes and heroism in the fiction of Tolkien and the Old norse world: an interview with George Clark / Daniel Timmons
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 263 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:1580441548
1-58044-154-8
9781580441544
978-1-58044-154-4