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

ISBN-13: 9780367666491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Kathleen Forni

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.