TY  - GEN
T1  - Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination
T2  - Medievalism (Series) ;
A2  - Clark, David, 1977-
A2  - Perkins, Nicholas
LA  - English
PP  - Woodbridge, Suffolk England ; Rochester, N.Y.
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn774293910
AB  - 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 <I>Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination</I><BR><BR> Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's <I>Anglo-Saxon Reader</I> to Seamus Heaney's <I>Beowulf</I>, and from high modernism to the musclebound 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 as Geoffrey 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 <I>Beowulf</I> into <I>Grendel</I> - 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. <BR><BR> 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.
OP  - 283
CN  - PR173 .A54 2010eb
SN  - 9781846158858
SN  - 1846158850
SN  - 9781843842514
SN  - 1843842513
KW  - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
KW  - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
KW  - English literature : Old English, ca. 450-1100 : History and criticism.
KW  - Civilisation anglo-saxonne.
KW  - Civilisation anglo-saxonne dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Great Britain.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Medieval.
KW  - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
KW  - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
KW  - English literature : Old English
KW  - Altenglisch
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Angelsachsen
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Bellettrie (teksten)
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
KW  - Engeland.
KW  - 450-1100
KW  - Anglo-Saxons.
KW  - Artists.
KW  - Beowulf.
KW  - Comic book.
KW  - Culture.
KW  - Henry Sweet.
KW  - Hollywood.
KW  - Imagination.
KW  - Inspiration.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Medieval England.
KW  - Modern writers.
KW  - Pre-Conquest past.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -