The hero recovered : essays on medieval heroism in honor of George Clark / edited by Robin Waugh and James Weldon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waugh, Robin, 1959-

Weldon, James, 1948-

Clark, George, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes in literature.

Clark, George, 1932-.

Clark, George.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2010]

Contents:

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 Tolkein and the Old norse world: an interview with George Clark / Daniel Timmons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers from a special session at the 38th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2003.

ISBN:

9781580441544

1580441548

OCLC:

664450805