Understanding Beowulf
Oral Poetry Acts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2794775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Niles (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 420 |
| Pages | 131 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/541965 |
| OpenAlex | W1988832169 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
How and why was Beowulf written down ? The A. presents a new theory of the making of this material text based on the concept of the « oral poetry act », a staged event that aims to generate a readable text of an oral poem for the benefit of a textual community. The theory, if valid, has implications for understanding the nature of Beowulf as a long, fully developed poem, as well as for editing archaic texts of this kind
Art · Event (particle physics) · Literature · Poetry · Computer Science · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Medieval Iberian Studies · Medieval Literature and History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |