The <i>Beowulf</i> manuscript reconsidered: Reading <i>Beowulf</i> in late Anglo-Saxon England

The <i>Beowulf</i> manuscript reconsidered: Reading <i>Beowulf</i> in late Anglo-Saxon England

This article defines a hypothetical late Anglo-Saxon audience: a multi-layered Christian community with competing ideologies, dialects and mythologies. It discusses how that audience might have received the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The immediate textual context of the poem constitutes an intertex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: L. Viljoen
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2003-08-01
Series:Literator
Subjects:
Beowulf
Audience
Reception
Civilization
In Literature
Anglo-Saxon
Epic Poetry
Old English
History And Criticism
Literature And Society
England
Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/290

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