Beowulf in Contemporary Culture
Edited by David Clark
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Cambridge Scholars
ISBN: 1-5275-4306-4
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-4306-5
Release Date: 10th December 2019
Pages: 263
Price: £61.99
Description
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.
Contents (from WorldCat)
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
Editor Bio
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.
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