St. Beowulf: Hagiography and Heroic Identity in Beowulf

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI:10.1353/sip.2024.a919341
Peter Ramey
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Debates over the role of Christianity in Beowulf have not fully taken into account hagiographic models. Although saints' lives were among the first written materials to flourish in early medieval England, relatively little has been done to examine the influence of hagiography on Beowulf. After considering some of the reasons for the lack of such approaches, this essay examines Beowulf in light of hagiographic conventions and concepts, arguing that the Beowulf-poet invests the traditional warrior identity of the hero Beowulf with conceptions of sanctity found in saints' lives composed by Bede, Felix, and others. In the process, this essay challenges the prevailing "dramatic irony" view of the poem that divorces the religious understanding of the narrator from that of the characters. A thorough analysis reveals that characters and narrator speak a shared theological language and that the religious perspectives of narrator and dramatis personae are indistinguishable.

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摘要:关于基督教在《贝奥武夫》中的作用的争论并没有充分考虑到神传模式。虽然圣徒生平是中世纪早期英国最先兴起的书面材料之一,但研究胡志学对《贝奥武夫》影响的文章却相对较少。在考虑了缺乏此类研究方法的一些原因之后,这篇文章根据胡志学的惯例和概念对《贝奥武夫》进行了研究,认为《贝奥武夫》的诗人在英雄贝奥武夫的传统战士身份中注入了贝德、菲利克斯等人创作的圣人生平中的神圣概念。在此过程中,这篇文章挑战了对这首诗的普遍 "戏剧反讽 "观点,这种观点将叙述者的宗教理解与人物的宗教理解割裂开来。透彻的分析表明,人物和叙事者使用的是共同的神学语言,叙事者和戏剧人物的宗教观点是无法区分的。
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1903, Studies in Philology addresses scholars in a wide range of disciplines, though traditionally its strength has been English Medieval and Renaissance studies. SIP publishes articles on British literature before 1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the Classical, Romance, and Germanic Languages.
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