Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.The immediate manuscript context of the monsters in Beowulf is analysed, shedding light on the poet's treatment of the theme of the monstrous and its integration into his work, and a series of parallel discussions consider a range of medieval treatments of the same theme in a variety of analogous texts (all provided with translation), in Latin, Old English, Middle Irish, and Old Icelandic.The twin themes of pride and prodigies are suggested by tracing changing attitudes towards the concept of pride and establishing a close link between the proud pagan warriors depicted in Christian tradition and the monsters they fight, and with whom they become increasingly identified.An appendix contains new editions and translations (some for the first time in English) of the Liber Monstrorum, The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and The Wonders of the East. Originally published in 1995 by Boydell & Brewer.
發表於2024-11-30
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Andy Orchard的書基本上可以當做古英語文學研究的教科書瞭,文獻太紮實瞭(我知道這句話輪不到我說T T)。這本對於Beowulf MS裏怪獸相關處理的很細緻,個人最喜歡他對Cain一族的總結和闡釋,以及Grendel和Grettir的平行研究。
評分Andy Orchard的書基本上可以當做古英語文學研究的教科書瞭,文獻太紮實瞭(我知道這句話輪不到我說T T)。這本對於Beowulf MS裏怪獸相關處理的很細緻,個人最喜歡他對Cain一族的總結和闡釋,以及Grendel和Grettir的平行研究。
評分Andy Orchard的書基本上可以當做古英語文學研究的教科書瞭,文獻太紮實瞭(我知道這句話輪不到我說T T)。這本對於Beowulf MS裏怪獸相關處理的很細緻,個人最喜歡他對Cain一族的總結和闡釋,以及Grendel和Grettir的平行研究。
評分Andy Orchard的書基本上可以當做古英語文學研究的教科書瞭,文獻太紮實瞭(我知道這句話輪不到我說T T)。這本對於Beowulf MS裏怪獸相關處理的很細緻,個人最喜歡他對Cain一族的總結和闡釋,以及Grendel和Grettir的平行研究。
評分Andy Orchard的書基本上可以當做古英語文學研究的教科書瞭,文獻太紮實瞭(我知道這句話輪不到我說T T)。這本對於Beowulf MS裏怪獸相關處理的很細緻,個人最喜歡他對Cain一族的總結和闡釋,以及Grendel和Grettir的平行研究。
Pride and Prodigies 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載