Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Clark, David; Perkins, Nicholas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

An excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture. Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination

Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to themusclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood, Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection. 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. They offer fresh insights on established figures, such as W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Jones, and on contemporary writers such asGeoffrey Hill, Peter Reading, P.D. James, and Heaney. They explore the interaction between text, image and landscape in medieval and modern books, the recasting of mythic figures such as Wayland Smith, and the metamorphosis of Beowulf into Grendel - as a novel and as grand opera. The early medieval emerges not simply as a site of nostalgia or anxiety in modern revisions, but instead provides a vital arena for creativity, pleasure, and artistic experiment.

Contributors: Bernard O'Donoghue, Chris Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna Johnson, Clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Allen J. Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J. Crawforth, Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846158858
• Artikelnr.: 56164137

Inhaltsangabe

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
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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