Interperfonnativity and Beowulf

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  • Ward Parks
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Whether it was itself composed orally or in writing, tile Old English Bcowulfis profoundly indebted to the world of orality on which it draws and into which it offers itself as performed artistic uW,;rance.In an obvious sense, then, any infonned interpretation of the poem must, in one of it.smovements, detextualize the text as /hing and reconstitute it imaginatively as event. Yet the performance event eDlails far more than just a specific perfonnancc occasion; indced, Ule text of Beowulf cODlains no direct allusions to pcrformance in this sense. Rather, the poem consistcntly orients itsclf towards oral traditional diachmny, which interpenetrates the narrative on several levels. On the level of the act of narrating, diach.rony as the colJective rememberance 01 past ullcrance emerges as the source of poetic discourse, both when the poet authenticates his nalTative through the formula "I heard," and when Ile draws on tradilional aphorism as a standard by which to evaluate his characters. On the level of the action itself, a belief in the immediate peninence of diachrony is exhibited hy the many digressions into genealogy and tribal history. Both forms of narrative movement into the past allest to a common conception of the known and the knowable in communication and in time. For it is urrough the medium of the chain of oral performances thatlradilionallore reenacts and thus perpetuates ilSc1f within an oral world.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011