What's the Point of Dating Beowulf?
- The great Old English epic 'Beowulf' has been dated to practically every century between the 6th and the 11th century, depending on the criteria of dating adopted and the approaches advocated by the respective scholars. As the text successfully avoids to provide definite cues or evidence for a definitive date, these scholarly attempts reveal more about the respective scholars' research interests than offering uncontroversial dates. The point of dating 'Beowulf' then seems to provide scholars with the opportunity to anchor their own personal understanding of the poem within the century of their own personal predilection.
Author details: | Hildegard L. C. Tristram |
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ISBN: | 3-8233-5407-8 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 1997 |
Publication year: | 1997 |
Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
Source: | Medieval Insular Literature : Bd. 2 Continuity of transmission / Hrsg.: Hildegard L. C. Tristram. - Tübingen : Narr, 1997. - ISBN 3-8233-5407-8. - (ScriptOralia ; 97). - S. 65 - 80 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
Peer review: | Nicht ermittelbar |