NOTES

 

 

THE FORBIDDEN BEOWULF :  HAUNTED BY INCEST  

 

 

 

* Cet article a été initialement publié dans la revue PMLA, n° 125 (2010), p. 289-305.

 

(1) Erich Auerbach, Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, (trad.) Willard Trask, Princeton, Princeton UP, 1953, p. 12. 

 

(2) R. W. Chambers, Beowulf : An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, 1921, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1959 ; Kemps Malone, “The Daughter of Healfdene", Studies in Heroic Legend and in Current Speech, (dir.)  Stefán Ei nars son and Norman E. Eliason. Copenhagen, Rosen kilde and Bagger, 1959, p.124–141. 

 

(3) Thomas D. Hill, “Scyld Scefing and the ‘Stirps Regia’ : Pagan Myth and Christian Kingship in Beowulf”,  Magister Regis : Essays in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske, (dir.) Arthur Groos. New York: Fordham UP, 1986. p. 37-47.

 

(4) Frederick M. Biggs, “Beowulf and Some Fictions of the Geatish Succession", Anglo­ Saxon England n°32 (2003), p. 55–77 ; Id., “The Politics of Succession in Beowulf and Anglo Saxon England”, Speculum n°80-3 (2005), p. 709-741. 

 

(5) Craig R.Davis, Beowulf and the Demise of Germanic Legend in England, New York, Garland, 1996. 

 

(6) Helen Damico, Beowulf’s Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Madison, University of Wisconsin, 1984. 

 

(7) Paul Bauschatz, The Well and the Tree : World and Time in Early Germanic Culture., Amherst, University of Massachusetts P, 1982. 

 

(8) Theodore M. Andersson, “Sources and Analogues”, A Beowulf Handbook, (dir.) Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln, University  of Nebraska P, 1997, p. 131. 

 

(9)  Axel Olrik, The Heroic Legends of Denmark, (trad.) Lee M. Hollander, London, Oxford UP, 1919. 

 

(10) R.W. Chambers, Beowulf :  An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, 1921, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1959. 

 

(11) Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, (éd.) Frederick Klaeber, Boston, Heath, 1950. 

 

(12) Beowulf and Its Analogues, (trad.) G. N. Garmonsway, and Jacqueline Simpson, New York, Dutton, 1968.

 

(13) Beowulf Theme Issue. Spec. issue of ANQ 20.3 (2007), p. 1-77. 

 

(14) Beowulf and Lejre, (dir.) John D. Niles with Marijane Osborn, Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007, p. 297-287. 

 

(15) Klaeber’s Beowulf, (éd) R. D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles, Toronto, University  of Toronto, 2008.

 

(16) Walter A. Berendsohn, Zur Vorgeschichte des Beowulf, Copenhagen, Levin and Munksgaard, 1935. 

 

(17) Axdel Olrik, Principles for Oral Narrative Research, (trad.)  Kirstin Wolf and Jody Jensen, Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1992.

 

(18) Theodore M. Andersson, “Sources and Analogues”, art. cit., p. 146. 

 

(19)  Robert Farrell, Beowulf :  Swedes and Geats, London, Viking Soc. for Northern Research, 1972, p. 24. 

 

(20) R.W. Chambers, Beowulf :  An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, op. cit., p. 26.

 

(21)  C. L. Wrenn, “Recent Work on Beowulf to 1958", in R.W. Chambers, Beowulf :  An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, op. cit., p. 505–552. 

 

(22) John D. Niles, “Myth and History", A Beowulf Handbook, (dir.) Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln,  University of Nebraska, 1997, p. 226. 

 

(23) Id., Beowulf : The Poem and Its Tradition, Cambridge,  Harvard UP, 1983. p. 175. 

 

(24) Bruce Mitchell, “Literary Lapses : Six Notes on Beowulf and Its Critics", Review of English Studies t. 43-169 (1992), p. 12-13. 

 

(25) Axel Olrik, The Heroic Legends of Denmark, op. cit., p. 13. 

 

(26) Andy Orchard, A Critical Companion to Beowulf, Cambridge, Brewer, 2003. 

 

(27) Ibidem, p. 217. 

 

(28)  Beowulf :  An Edition, (éd) Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998, p. 154.

 

(29) R.W. Chambers, Beowulf :  An Introduction to the Study of the Poem, op. cit., p. 448. 

  

(30) Klaeber’s Beowulf, éd. cit., v. 224-225n.

 

(31) Theodore M. Andersson, “Sources and Analogues”, art. cit., p. 132-133.

 

(32) Marijane Osborn, “The Lejre Connection in Beowulf Scholarship”, Beowulf and Lejre, op. cit., p. 252.

 

(33) Ibidem, p. 260-261. 

 

(34) Theodore M. Andersson, “Sources and Analogues”, art. cit., p. 132. 

 

(35) Jesse L. Byock, "Introduction", Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, p. XXV-XXVII. 

 

(36) Axel Olrik, The Heroic Legends of Denmark, op. cit., p.249.

 

(37) Fidel Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel, The Condemnation of Heroism in the Tragedy of Beowulf, Lewiston, Mellen, 1989., p. 57. 

 

(38) Helen Damico, Beowulf’s Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, op. cit., p. 113.

 

(39) Beowulf :  An Edition, éd. cit., p. 77.

  

(40) Klaeber’s Beowulf, éd. cit., v. 159n

  

(41) Helen Damico, Beowulf’s Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, op. cit., p. 113. 

  

(42) Beowulf :  An Edition, éd. cit., p. 77. 

 

(43) Marijane Osborn, Romancing the Goddess, Urbana, University  of Illinois, 1998, p. 27-31. 

 

(44) Paul Strohm, Theory and the Pre­ modern Text, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2000, p. 165.