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A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech
in Old English poetry. Some of the most celebrated passages of Old
English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest,
Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of
defiance, etc. Yet Direct Speech, as a stylistic device, has
remained largely under-examined and under-theorized in studies of
the corpus. As a consequence, many analyses are unduly influenced
by anachronistic conceptions of Direct Speech, leading to
problematic interpretations, not least concerning irony and
implicit characterisation. This book uses linguistic theories to
reassess the role of Direct Speech in Old English narrative poetry.
Beowulf is given a great deal of attention, because it is amajor
poem and because it is the focus of much of the existing
scholarship on this subject, but it is examined in a broader poetic
context: the poem belongs to a wider tradition and thus needs to be
understood in that context. The texts examined include several
major Old English narrative poems, in particular the two Genesis,
Christ and Satan, Andreas, Elene, Juliana and Guthlac A. Elise
Louviot is a Lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
(France) and a specialist of Old English poetry. Her research
interests include orality, tradition, formulas and the linguistic
expression of subjectivity.
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