Clark / Perkins Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84615-885-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Medievalism

The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, David

Perkins, Nicholas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frantzen, Allen J.

Johnson, Anna

Clarke, Catherine A M

Jones, Chris

Lees, Clare

Clark, David

Crawforth, Hannah J.

O'Donoghue, Heather

Halbrooks, John

Davies, Joshua

Atherton, M

Artamonova, Maria

Cecire, Maria Sachiko

Perkins, Nicholas

Barr, Rebecca Anne

Echard, Sian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Nicholas Perkins and David Clark
From Heorot to Hollywood: Beowulf in its Third Millennium - C S Jones
Priming the Poets: the Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader - M Atherton
Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's Double Debt to the Literature of the North - Heather O'Donoghue
Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles - Maria Artamonova
'Wounded men and wounded trees': David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle - Anna Johnson
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace - Clare Lees
BOOM: Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print - Sian Echard
Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel - Allen J. Frantzen
Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6 - Catherine A M Clarke
P.D. James Reads Beowulf - John Halbrooks
Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture - Maria Sachiko Cecire
'Overlord of the M5': The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns - Hannah J. Crawforth
The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet - Joshua Davies
Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, 'species decline', and Old English Poetry - Rebecca Anne Barr

Über Autor(innen)

Artamonova Maria:
Maria Artamonova is a graduate of St Petersburg State University and holds a doctorate in Old English from the University of Oxford. She is an Oxfordshire-based translator and also teaches medieval and fantasy literature.