Condemnation of Heroism in the Tragedy of Beowulf a Study in the Characterization of the Epic

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An interpretation of Beowulf as a disconfirmation of the heroic type in which the author argues that the poem is the vehicle of a strong anti-militaristic, anti-heroic, pacifist wisdom that he claims is the essence of epic literature.

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