Post-structuralist theories: the subject and the text

Pasternack, Carol Braun

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“…But, as George Jack recognizes in his edition, "fierce assailant" indicates the common ground for all the referents. 101 Further, Pasternack explains that "The aglaecan are also wreccan, and this word and etymologically related terms point even more clearly to an oral-heroic paradigm in which hero and opponent fall within a single concept, the fi erce outsider." 102 O'Keeff e has also remarked that the signifi cance of the term rinc [man; warrior] as it is applied to Grendel "is underscored by the number of the times the poet uses the word as a simplex or as part of a compound in the .…”

Section: That Terrible and Splendidly Made Spectaclementioning

confidence: 99%

Exteriority is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf

Joy¹

2007

Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages

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This essay considers Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of hospitality in relation to the "isolated and heroic being that the state produces by its virile virtues," through an analysis of female Chechen suicide terrorists in contemporary Russia and the figure of Grendel in the Old English poem Beowulf, in order to raise some questions about the relation between violence, justice, and sovereignty, both in the Middle Ages and in our own time. He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance has separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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Section: That Terrible and Splendidly Made Spectaclementioning

confidence: 99%