A perusal of alterity in old English poetry
Other Title(s)
قراءة "الغرابة" في الشعر الإنجليزي القديم
Author
Source
Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series
Issue
Vol. 35, Issue 2 (30 Apr. 2020), pp.13-26, 14 p.
Publisher
Mutah University Deanship of Academic Research
Publication Date
2020-04-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Literature
Abstract EN
Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry expresses a great admiration and interest in the main components of the heroic lifestyle known among the Anglo-Saxons like the comitatus, the lord, and the warriors as well as people's ethics, such as loyalty, courage, self-denial, blood vengeance, and wergild.
while this suggests that modern readers can understand and reconstruct the cultural texture of the Anglo-Saxon culture by reading Anglo-Saxon poetry, this paper contends that the Anglo-Saxon culture constitutes a state of alterity for modern readers and that Anglo-Saxon literature is dominated by that atmosphere of alterity, which makes understanding Anglo-Saxon culture through reading its literature a speculation-based task.
relying on Jauss's and Borrow's opposing perspectives about the alterity of medieval literature, this paper analyzes some excerpts from Beowulf, the wife's lament, and other old English poems to prove that such narratives do not completely display the Anglo-Saxon heroic culture; thus, reading the heroic poetry of the Anglo-Saxons does not always result in a full understanding of the Anglo-Saxon culture.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Zurayqat, Malik Jamal. 2020. A perusal of alterity in old English poetry. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series،Vol. 35, no. 2, pp.13-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967500
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Zurayqat, Malik Jamal. A perusal of alterity in old English poetry. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series Vol. 35, no. 2 (2020), pp.13-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967500
American Medical Association (AMA)
Zurayqat, Malik Jamal. A perusal of alterity in old English poetry. Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth Wad-Dirasat : Humanities and Social Sciences Series. 2020. Vol. 35, no. 2, pp.13-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-967500
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 26
Record ID
BIM-967500