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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Heroic Literature"”.
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Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… that define the monstrous and the heroic — both on their own and in conjunction with each other — in three representative texts of the Middle Ages, the Old English 'Beowulf' (manuscript c.1000), the Persian epic, 'The Shahnameh' (c.1010) and Gottfried von Strassburg’s Middle-High …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… to be, occupying a role they cannot attain. In heroic literature, conception- and birth-related narratives are part of the prefiguring of the hero; Otherworldly elements and/or a god/goddess are frequently involved in the begetting of the hero, who may sometimes be interpreted as a mortal …
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Heroes and heroism in medieval Irish literature
The heroes of medieval Irish literature have been, and continue to be, a topic of enduring interest, both within and beyond the academy. These heroes, of whom Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill are certainly the best known, are frequently the topics of discussion in many different sub-branches of the …