Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination

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Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination

edited by David Clark and Nicholas Perkins

(Medievalism, v. 1)

D.S. Brewer, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

目次

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

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB07031127
  • ISBN
    • 9781843842514
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 283 p., [4] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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