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University of South Carolina
The Warrior and the Witan: Searching For the Culture of Wisdom In Beowulf
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In the poem Beowulf, the role of the community's formal council, the witan, has not been adequately examined. This group should be juxtaposed with Beowulf who, as a warrior, exhibits the values of individualism, while the witan embodies the values of the community. These communal values are represented, throughout the poem, as the values of knowledge and constitute a poetic sphere of behavior, morality, and society that can reasonably be called the culture of wisdom.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literatures
- Year
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hardaway, Reid Fuller
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Scott Gwara
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2011, Reid Fuller Hardaway
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1070
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-2071