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Book SynopsisStudies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot.André Crépin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and in Europe. These studies in his honour reflect the wide range of his interests in Old and Middle English, from
Beowulf to Malory. Their linking theme is the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero, from the classic expression of the Germanic code to the chivalry of the knights of the Round Table, from Beowulf toChaucer's knight to Sir Lancelot. Beowulf as archetypal hero is both the subject of and the concept behind more than one study; others, attempting to define heroism, grapple with the semantic problem posed by the absence of thisword until very late in the medieval period; and the very notion of heroism is questioned as the passive hero or anti-hero emerges as a literary type, at the same time as the medieval consciousness of self developed. Contributors: GUY BOURGUIN, LEO CARRUTHERS, PETER CLEMOES, ANDY ORCHARD, ERIC STANLEY, JULIETTE DOR, DEREK BREWER, TERENCE P. DOLAN, JILL MANN, JOSSELINE BIBARD, JEAN-JACQUES BLANCHOT, JAMES WIMSATT, TERENCE McCARTHY, GLORIA CIGMAN.
Table of ContentsRaynard the Fox as Anti-Hero - Josseline Bidard Type Conceptions of the Good Knight in the French Arthurian Cycles, Malory and Chaucer - Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Dunbar's Poetry - Jean-Jacques Blanchot The Lexis and Deixis of Heroism in Old English Poetry - Guy Bourquin Chaucer's Knight as Hero, and Machaut's Prise d'Alexandrie - Derek S Brewer Kingship and Heroism in Beowulf - The Medieval Self as Anti-Hero - Caroline Muessig / The Editor The Medieval Self As Anti-Hero - Gloria Cigman King and Creation at the Crucifixion: the Contribution of Native Tradition to the Dream of the Rood 50-5a - The Plowman as Hero - Terence P Dolan Humilis exaltetur: Constance, or Humility Rewarded - Juliette Dor Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero - Beowulf's Bairns: Malory's Sterner Knights - Conspicuous Heroism: Abraham, Prudentius, and the Old English Verse Genesis - Heroic Women In Old English Literature - Type Conceptions of the Good Knight in the French Arthurian Cycles, Malory and Chaucer - James Wimsatt
