Published by Massive Publishing
(W) Darin S. Cape (A) Elba Niado (CA) Reksa Xavi P. B.O. Wolf is a dual-timeline series that interweaves the epic of Beowulf with life in the 1980s. A monster stalks the halls of a middle school, a relentless bully tormenting a group of kids who escape into the fantasy world of their role-playing adventures. But as the game begins to mirror their lives, they’ll need a hero of their own. Blending myth and modern reality, the series explores how courage, imagination, and resistance endure.
Heather O'Donoghue (Author)
Full details and ordering information at https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beowulf-9781788312882/,
Published Jun 13 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781788312882
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book aims to present the poem to readers who want to know what makes it such a remarkable work of art, and why it is of such cultural significance.
Most readers will only have encountered Beowulf through one of its many translations or adaptations; others have had to take on this unique survivor from a past era as a challenging translation exercise, part of their academic study of the poem. This book sidesteps scholarly debates about the poem's unknowns – its date, provenance or author – and focusses instead on its poetic artistry, its interleaving of heroic pasts and Christian present, and its poet's extraordinary breadth of reference, from biblical history to Old Norse myth. But the strange intricacies of Old English metre and poetic language are explained, and the poet's evocation of the ethics and material world of an imagined pre-Viking Scandinavia is explored.
Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero follows the story of the poem through its many interwoven voices from different times and places, and the poem emerges as a work of reflective beauty, its human characters full of touching pathos and wisdom, its notorious monsters still speaking to our own societies' abiding insecurities. The final section, on post-medieval responses to Beowulf, shows how the poem has been taken up as a European cultural icon. This book restores its status as a literary masterpiece.
Introduction
Part One: The Storyworld
1. The Setting
2. The Human Characters
3. The Monsters
Part Two: Poet, Narrator and Scop
4. A Christian Poet
5. An Old Norse Scholar
6. The Narrator
7. The Scop
Part Three: Post-Medieval Meanings
8. Earliest Audiences
9. Early Modern Audiences
10. Translations
11. Contemporary Meanings
Further Reading
Index
Edited by Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel
Full details, preview, and ordering information at: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846505/old-english-medievalism/.
312 Pages
23.4 x 15.6 cm
1 b/w illus
Series: Medievalism
Series Vol. Number: 21
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
9781843846505
November 2022
$125.00 / £85.00
(also available as an ebook)
An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel
1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry
1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell
2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Victoria Condie
3 Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton's Wulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo
4 Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in Museums - Fran Allfrey
II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction
5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel
6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake (2014) - Judy Kendall
7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly
8 Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson
III Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English
9 Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler
10 Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old English Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatović
11 The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual
IV Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom
12 Mitchell & Robinson's Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy - Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany
13 The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele Knappe
Bibliography
Index
Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary.
Thijs Porck is University Lecturer in Medieval English at Leiden University. He has published on Old English textual criticism, Beowulf, old age, medievalism, and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world.
Edited by David Clark
Full details, preview, and ordering information at the publisher's website: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-4306-5.
Cambridge Scholars
ISBN: 1-5275-4306-4
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-4306-5
Release Date: 10th December 2019
Pages: 263
Price: £61.99
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.
Introduction / David Clark
Beowulf on Film: Gender, Sexuality, Hyperreality / David Clark
Race/Ethnicity and the Other in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands / David Clark
'I braved in my youth-days battles unnumbered': Beowulf, Video Games, and Hack-and-Slash Medievalism / Victoria E. Cooper and Andrew B.R. Elliott
Manly Fantasy: Medieval and Modern Masculinities in Two Juvenile Versions of Beowulf / Janice Hawes
Thomas Meyer's Beowulf: The Visual Text / Claire Pascolini Campbell
The Monsters, the Translators, and the Artists: iofgeornost and the Challenges of Translating Beowulf / Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso
From Scop to Subversive: Beowulf as a Force for Inclusivity / Meghan Purvis
Playful Storytelling in Beowulf / S.C. Thomson
'The Whale Road': A Musical Response to the World of Beowulf / Mark Atherton
A Conversation between Maria Dahvana Headley and Carolyne Larrington
David Clark specializes in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse literatures, and contemporary medievalism. He is the author of Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature (2009) and Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga (2012), the translator of The Saga of Bishop Thorlak (2013), and the editor of three edited collections.
Dan Torre (Author) , Lienors Torre (Author)
This book is available in hardcover (2021), paperback (2023), and open-access.
Extent 216
ISBN 9781501381119
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 65 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
This open access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design which has attained a national and international cult status since its release in 1981. The film, based on the novel, Grendel, by John Gardner, is a loose adaptation of the Beowulf legend, but told from the point of view of the monster, Grendel. Grendel Grendel Grendel is a mature, intelligent, irreverent and quite unique animated film - it is a movie, both in terms of content and of an aesthetic that was well ahead of its time. Along with a brief overview of Australian animation and a contextualization of where this animated feature fits within the broader continuum of Australian (and global) film history, Dan Torre and Lienors Torre provide an intriguing analysis of this significant Australian animated feature.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introducing Grendel
Chapter One: The Genealogy of Grendel
Chapter Two: Scenes of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Three: Themes of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Four: Making of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Five: Aesthetics of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Six: Grendel'll Get You
Concluding Grendel
A Guide to Further Research
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Carl Sell, Benjamin Hoover, and Richard Fahey
55th NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, 7-10 March 2024
Updated 3/8/2024
Saturday
Mar 9 Track 16
01:15-02:45
16.29 Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Part 1)
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
Chair: Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame
Location: Dalton B (Media Equipped)
British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
"Performing Beowulf" Chris Vinsonhaler, City University of New York (BMCC) [WITHDRAWN]
"A 'Thorn and Steel Grendel': Attacking the Mead Hall in The Hyperion Cantos" Benjamin Yusen, Indiana University-Bloomington
"Beowulf Transformed is Beowulf Preserved What’s Old is New Again The Recovery of its Lost Story" James the Howard of Buckingham, Independent Scholar
Saturday
Mar 9 Track 17
03:00-04:30
17.29 Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Part 2)
Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
Location: Dalton B (Media Equipped)
British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies
"Authenticity and the Genre of Historical Fiction in Beowulf Adaptations for Young Readers" Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M University
"Beowulf, Exile, and Endless Sword Fights" Maureen Gokey, Russell Sage College
"Beowulf after Beowulf: Continuations of the Old English Epic in Popular Culture" Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College
"Contemporary Beowulfs: Translation and Representation" Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame
More details, a preview, and ordering information from Weinersmith's website at this link.
For teachers, the book includes a detailed appendix with information on the making of the comic. There is also a sketchbook with some of Boulet's early art for the book.
Book Details
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776297/bea-wolf
A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids who must defend their tree house from a fun-hating adult who can instantly turn children into grown-ups.
Listen! Hear a tale of mallow-munchers and warriors who answer candy’s clarion call!
Somewhere in a generic suburb stands Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary where generations of tireless tykes have spent their youths making merry, spilling soda, and staving off the shadow of adulthood. One day, these brave warriors find their fun cut short by their nefarious neighbor Grindle, who can no longer tolerate the sounds of mirth seeping into his joyless adult life.
As the guardian of gloom lays siege to Treeheart, scores of kids suddenly find themselves transformed into pimply teenagers and sullen adults! The survivors of the onslaught cry out for a savior—a warrior whose will is unbreakable and whose appetite for mischief is unbounded.
They call for Bea Wolf.
Imprint Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 9781250776297
Page Count: 208
Genre: Children’s Literature
On Sale: 03/21/2023
Age Range: 8-12
