Beowulf In Contemporary Culture
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Author | : David Clark |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2019-11-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1527544060 |
This collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture across a wide range of forms. The last 15 years have seen an intensification of scholarly interest in medievalism and reimaginings of the Middle Ages. However, in spite of the growing prominence of medievalism both in academic discourse and popular culture—and in spite of the position Beowulf itself holds in both areas—no study such as this has yet been undertaken. Beowulf in Contemporary Culture therefore makes a significant contribution both to early medieval studies and to our understanding of Beowulf’s continuing cultural impact. It should inspire further research into this topic and medievalist responses to other aspects of early medieval culture. Topics covered here range from film and television to video games, graphic novels, children’s literature, translations, and versions, along with original responses published here for the first time. The collection not only provides an overview of the positions Beowulf holds in the contemporary imagination, but also demonstrates the range of avenues yet to be explored, or even fully acknowledged, in the study of medievalism.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Dragons |
ISBN | : 9789357240789 |
Author | : KellyAnn Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843845415 |
The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.
Author | : Kathleen Forni |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0429880367 |
Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.
Author | : David Clark |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843842513 |
The Anglo-Saxon world continues to be a source of fascination in modern culture. Its manifestations in a variety of media are here examined.
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Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486111105 |
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author | : Maria Dahvana Headley |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374715548 |
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. This modern fantasy tale transports you from the ancient mead halls of the Geats to the picket-fenced, meticulously planned community of American suburbia, known as Herot Hall. In the expert hands of Maria Dahvana Headley, this vibrant retelling underscores the timeless struggle between the protected and the outsiders. Enter the confines of Herot Hall, a gated community sequestered from the wild surroundings by sophisticated security systems. Here, life is a series of cocktail hours and playdates for Willa, the charming wife of Herot's heir, and her son Dylan. Meanwhile, deep in a nearby mountain cave lives Dana, a hardened soldier and mother of Gren, a child of mysterious origin. Their worlds collide in a shocking turn of events when Gren breaks into Herot Hall and escapes with Dylan. A brilliant literary novel that effortlessly melds modern literature with ancient mythology, The Mere Wife is a captivating testament to unintended consequences, the brutality of PTSD, and the enduring power of motherhood.
Author | : Larry Swain |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501512080 |
Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of attention and interest in the Old English epic has led to a myriad of new and varying translations of the poem published every year, the production of several mainstream film and television adaptations, and many graphic novel versions. More and more teachers in all sorts of classrooms, with varying degrees of familiarity and training are called upon to bring this ancient poem before their students. This practical guide to teaching Beowulf in the twenty-first century combines scholarly research with pedagogical technique, imparting a picture of how the poem can be taught in contemporary American institutions.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Beowulf |
ISBN | : 9781435230323 |
Author | : Andreas Haarder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134970935 |
Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem's first mention in 1705 to the Anglophone scholarship of the early twentieth century. Tom Shippey provides both a contextual introduction and a guide to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship which generated these Beowulf commentaries. The book is a vital document for the study of one of the major texts of 'the Northern renaissance', in which completely unknown poems and even languages were brought to the attention first of the learned world and then of popular culture. It also acts as a valuable guide to the development of nationalist and racist sentiment, beginning romantically and ending with World War and attempted genocide.