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  title info:
    title: From Beowulf To St. Guthlac
    sub title: The Influence Of Early Christian Theologians On The Portrayal And Characterization Of Hero Figures In Old English Poetry
  name:
    name part: Oakes, David A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: O'Keeffe, Katherine O'B.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  type of resource: software, multimedia
  genre: Undergraduate thesis
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    extent: 1 online resource (126 pages).
  abstract: It is not simply the retelling of ancient tales of heroes at war with other heroes. It is a literature that describes the conflict of humankind with the powers of darkness and evil, and it belongs to an age in which nature was felt as unsubdued, in which the elements were ever dangerous and unfriendly. Everywhere in Old English Literature we have the sense of people trying to survive in a savage and menacing world--in the scenery, the stormy seas, the dark forests, the wild unpenetrated country that lay beyond the boundaries of their small tribal lands. In the foreground of the Old English landscape are the shore, the bold headlands, the wind swept sea. Beyond is a vague region of gloomy fens and shaggy woods, where there is neither sunshine nor warmth and where terror overpowers beauty. The world here is stark and uncompromising and the literature that has come to us across the centuries tells of life filled with strain and pressure, of days and nights spent tossing upon the sea--the bitter North Sea--in open vessels; of unremitting battles with foes human and inhuman; the fierce quarrels, the ferocity of invasion and war, the bodily strain, the sleepless mental vigilance, the rage and storm and slaughter, the uncouth terrors. Nowhere was there a harbor of refuge, nowhere a place of lasting peace or beauty--and the only hope were the heroes who through deeds of valor and unsurpassed bravery might keep the forces of evil and destruction at bay. In many ways the continuing appeal of Old English Literature ln modern times lies ln its presentation of heroes who struggle against deadly odds. Their deeds are projected in images of such vividness and power that they at once attain a strange familiarity, and emerge before the reader like bright-edged hallucinations, with a clarity so intense that intellect and imagination are immediately engaged. When we ask why we are so strangely stirred by words written hundreds of years ago, by a body of literature that seems remote in…
  target audience: specialized
  note: Undergraduate thesis written for Program year: 1989/1990
  note: Digitized from print version held at Pickle Center High Density Storage, barcode 24829692
  note: University Undergraduate Fellow, sponsored by English Department.
  note: HDR
  subject:
    topic: Anglo-Saxon England
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: cultural influence
  subject:
    topic: hero figures
  subject:
    topic: Old English Literature
  identifier: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/CAPSTONE-OakesD_1990
  record info:
    record creation date: 231116
    record change date: 20240301201847.5
    record identifier: in00004780747