Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film
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By Kathleen Forni
Routledge
208 pages
Hardback: 9781138609839
pub: 2018-06-04
USD $140.00
eBook (VitalSource) : 9780429466014
pub: 2018-08-06
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Description
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.
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
About the Author
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.
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