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The Humanist Beowulf by Andrew P Scheil, 1968- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Humanist Beowulf about?

Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised Beowulf as "a work of the greatest imaginative vitality": how is that true? The poem's current scholarly obsessions and its popular reception have obscured the fact that this untitled and anonymous 3182-line poem from Anglo-Saxon England is a powerful and enduring work of world literature. Beowulf is an early medieval exercise in humanism: it dramatizes, in varied and complex ways, the conflict between human autonomy and the "mind-forg'd manacles" of the world. The poem is as relevant and moving to any reader today as it was during the early Middle Ages. This book serves both as an invitation and introduction to the poem as well as an intervention in its current scholarly context.ISBN : 9781641893916

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Author

Andrew P Scheil, 1968-

Publisher

ARC Humanities Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781641893916

Category

nonfiction