Tolkien e Historicidade em Beowulf
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https://doi.org/10.51427/com.est.2024.03.01.0010Keywords:
Beowulf, Fantasy, Historicity, J. R. R. TolkienAbstract
This article aims to demonstrate that the lecture “Beowulf: The monsters and the critics”, given by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1936, drastically changed the subsequent literary criticism surrounding the medieval work Beowulf. If, previously, this epic was studied only as a historical source about the territory that today corresponds to Denmark around the 8th century, with its literary qualities relegated to the background, from Tolkien’s class, Beowulf begins to be seen as a poetic fantasy text that must be analyzed in light of its innovative artistic particularities.
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Shippey, T. A. 2022. Beowulf and the north before the Vikings. Leeds, England: Arc Humanities Press.
Tolkien, J.R.R., e Alan J. Bliss, eds. 1982. Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode. London: Allen & Unwin.
Tolkien, J.R.R. 1936. “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.” Proceedings of the British Academy (22): 102-30.
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