Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

Kathleen Forni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-60983-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Kathleen Forni is a Professor in the English Department at Loyola University Maryland. Her previous publications include, in addition to a number of journal articles, three books examining the formation of Chaucer's canon and Chaucer's twentieth-century reception.

Table of Contents

Chapter One Introduction: Why Beowulf?

Chapter Two Beowulf's Monsters

Retellings

Chapter Three Adult Fiction

Chapter Four Beowulf for Kids

Chapter Five Comic Books

Chapter Six Film and T.V.

Chapter Seven Appropriations Across Genres and Media

Chapter Eight Conclusion, or, The Monsters are the Critics

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-60983-8 / 1138609838
ISBN-13	978-1-138-60983-9 / 9781138609839
Zustand	Neuware