{"title":"Beowulf and Freawaru","authors":"Leonard Neidorf","doi":"10.1080/00144940.2021.2005523","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The critical fortunes of Beowulf ’s homecoming speech, the lengthy speech in which the returned hero narrates his Danish adventure before the Geatish court (ll. 2000–2151, 2155–2162), changed considerably over the course of the twentieth century. Though once regarded as a crude summary reflecting composite authorship or serial performance, the speech is now recognized as a sophisticated rhetorical performance through which the hero proclaims his fitness to rule Geatland.1 One passage in the speech that has recently garnered insightful commentary concerns the hero’s interaction, or lack thereof, with the Danish princess Freawaru, the daughter of Hrothgar, during his time at Heorot. Beowulf says:","PeriodicalId":42643,"journal":{"name":"EXPLICATOR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EXPLICATOR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2021.2005523","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The critical fortunes of Beowulf ’s homecoming speech, the lengthy speech in which the returned hero narrates his Danish adventure before the Geatish court (ll. 2000–2151, 2155–2162), changed considerably over the course of the twentieth century. Though once regarded as a crude summary reflecting composite authorship or serial performance, the speech is now recognized as a sophisticated rhetorical performance through which the hero proclaims his fitness to rule Geatland.1 One passage in the speech that has recently garnered insightful commentary concerns the hero’s interaction, or lack thereof, with the Danish princess Freawaru, the daughter of Hrothgar, during his time at Heorot. Beowulf says:
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Concentrating on works that are frequently anthologized and studied in college classrooms, The Explicator, with its yearly index of titles, is a must for college and university libraries and teachers of literature. Text-based criticism thrives in The Explicator. One of few in its class, the journal publishes concise notes on passages of prose and poetry. Each issue contains between 25 and 30 notes on works of literature, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman times to our own, from throughout the world. Students rely on The Explicator for insight into works they are studying.
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