"To Ρæm Stræcstum Mynstermonna Cynne 3ecyrren": Learning from Monastics on Either Side of a Millennium
The present essay is grounded in the notion that a critical perspective not only open to the irreducibly religious nature of Old English poetry but actively empathetic toward this nature is beneficial to scholarship. Borrowing terminology and conceptual frameworks from the disciplines of phenomenolo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 166-175 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The wanderer (Epic poetry)
/ Old English language
/ Religious poetry
/ Interpretation of
/ The Modern
/ Religious life
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBF British Isles KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Ecocriticism
B MONASTICISM & religious orders for women B Self-consciousness (Awareness) B OLD English poetry |
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| Summary: | The present essay is grounded in the notion that a critical perspective not only open to the irreducibly religious nature of Old English poetry but actively empathetic toward this nature is beneficial to scholarship. Borrowing terminology and conceptual frameworks from the disciplines of phenomenology of religion and of history, the essay proposes specifically that reading and dialoguing with contemporary western monastics might serve as a bridge to enable scholarship to critique this profound literature with new eyes. Such an empathetic methodology allows especially for greater insight into works that stray further from the aesthetic and ideological tastes of many modern readers - both earlier Romantic and nationalist readerships and late modern readerships - than works like the Riddles or The Wanderer do. A somewhat experimental case study of this approach is offered, wherein two contemporary monastics provide readings of the critically neglected poem, Homiletic Fragment II. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2019.0024 |