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Studies of the evolution of the hero, from Beowulf to Lancelot.
Andre Crepin, head of the English faculty at the Sorbonne, has made
a great contribution to medieval English studies in France and in
Europe. These studies in his honour reflect the wide range of his
interests in Old and Middle English, fromBeowulf to Malory. Their
linking theme is the literary and linguistic evolution of the hero,
from the classic expression of the Germanic code to the chivalry of
the knights of the Round Table, from Beowulf toChaucer's knight to
Sir Lancelot. Beowulf as archetypal hero is both the subject of and
the concept behind more than one study; others, attempting to
define heroism, grapple with the semantic problem posed by the
absence of thisword until very late in the medieval period; and the
very notion of heroism is questioned as the passive hero or
anti-hero emerges as a literary type, at the same time as the
medieval consciousness of self developed. Contributors: GUY
BOURGUIN, LEO CARRUTHERS, PETER CLEMOES, ANDY ORCHARD, ERIC
STANLEY, JULIETTE DOR, DEREK BREWER, TERENCE P. DOLAN, JILL MANN,
JOSSELINE BIBARD, JEAN-JACQUES BLANCHOT, JAMES WIMSATT, TERENCE
McCARTHY, GLORIA CIGMAN.
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