The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic LiteratureHisarlik Press, 1998 - 151 páginas The dragons portrayed in the four works examined here, BEOWULF, THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS, DAS NIBELUNGENLIED and THIDREKS SAGA each represent an unaticipated challenge to audience expectations concerning dragons and dragon slayers. The assumption that we all know what a dragon is, has been so deeply rooted in our cultural imagination that scholars speak casually of dragons as if the word required no interpretation. In this book the author deploys the techniques and theories of modern literary criticism texts to illuminate the function and meaning of dragons in the medieval Germanic world. |
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... imagery of crisis , death , and rebirth ; it is , in Victor Turner's words , " frequently likened to death , to being in the womb , to invisibility , to darkness , to bisexuality , to the wilderness , and to an eclipse of the sun or ...
... imagery of crisis , death , and rebirth ; it is , in Victor Turner's words , " frequently likened to death , to being in the womb , to invisibility , to darkness , to bisexuality , to the wilderness , and to an eclipse of the sun or ...
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... imagery is directly reminiscent of birth instead of resurrection ; indeed , Mircea Eliade has pointed out that “ entering the belly of a monster also carries a symbolism of return to the embryonic state . " 53 Sigurðr's reaggregation is ...
... imagery is directly reminiscent of birth instead of resurrection ; indeed , Mircea Eliade has pointed out that “ entering the belly of a monster also carries a symbolism of return to the embryonic state . " 53 Sigurðr's reaggregation is ...
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Beowulf and the Beowulf Dragon | 23 |
Fáfnir | 49 |
Sîfrit | 71 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsir audience Aventiure Bakhtin battle behavior Beowulf dragon Beowulf poet Brynhildr Burgundians chap Christian chronotope context courtly death Dialogic Imagination discourse discussion draconitas dragon fight dragon myth dragon slayer dragon slaying dragonish draugr Edda episode fact Fáfnir Fáfnismál gæst genre Germanic Grendel Grendel's mother guest Gunther Hagen Haymes Heorot heroic historical hoard horizon of expectations host Hroðgar human Icelandic Indo-European dragon slaying Indo-European myth initiation interpretation intertexts Isenstein J.R.R. Tolkien Jauss killing King Kriemhilt language legend liminal literary medieval metaphor mimetic desire Mímir monologic monster monstrous double murder mythic narrative Nibelung Nibelungenland Nibelungenlied Óðinn Old English Old Norse otherworld pagan poem poem's poet's Prünhilt Ragnars saga loðbrókar reciprocal violence reference Reginn role romance saga af Bern saga's Scyld serpent Siegfried Sîfrit Sigmundr Sigurðr sveinn Sinfjotli story sublation supernatural sword symbolic tion tradition trans transformation treasure University Press Volsunga saga warriors word þat Þiðreks saga