Grendel Recast In John Gardners Novel And Beowulf
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Author | : Sandra Hiortdahl |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527584690 |
This book brings John Gardner’s bestselling Grendel to life in the most comprehensive study of the novel to date. Using as a guide Gardner’s discussions on art, his extensive scholarship on Anglo-Saxon poetry, and his love of stories, this chapter-by-chapter analysis shows Grendel to be much more than an ironic twist on Beowulf. It reveals three distinct fights that mirror the poem, which solves mysteries that have stymied readers for decades. Anyone studying or teaching the novel will find useful analyses of Beowulf, a discussion of the novel within Gardner’s views on morality and art, and an assessment of Grendel as a modern tragic hero and anti-hero. The monster wants to be human with every ounce of his being, even at his death. This issue of identity, particularly for those who are outcast from society, culture, and community, finds resonance in nearly all of Gardner’s works. It does so in Grendel as well, and importantly so, as this work reveals.
Author | : John Gardner |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307756785 |
This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."
Author | : Sandra M. Hiortdahl |
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Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Beowulf |
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Author | : Craig Williamson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0812204409 |
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter. Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.
Author | : Adele-France Jourdan |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Release | : 2006-06-20 |
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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Author | : John E. Gardner |
Publisher | : Everbind |
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Release | : 2009-07-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780784804544 |
A modern retelling of "Beowulf" ... the most terrifying monster in English literature tells his side of the story.
Author | : Michael Sporn |
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Release | : 1977 |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
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Author | : Mary M. Lindenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 9781560771395 |