The prophetic Beowulf: heroic-hagiographic hybridity in Andreas, Juliana, and Beowulf
Beowulf's contest with Grendel has universally been read as an assertion of heroic agency. Yet as I demonstrate, this purportedly neutral convention derives from the misreading of a riddle design that invites and then disrupts expectation in the accidental denouement of Grendel's self-dest...
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University of Iowa
2013
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1787 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5839&context=etd |