Anglo-Saxon culture and 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 <I>Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination</I><BR><BR> Britain's pre-Conquest...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] ; Rochester, N.Y. :
D.S. Brewer,
2010.
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| Edice: | Medievalism (Series) ;
v. 1. |
| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt169wfjg |
Obsah:
- Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1 From Heorot to Hollywood : Beowulf in its Third Millennium; 2 Priming the Poets : The Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader; 3 Owed to Both Sides : W.H. Auden's double debt to the literature of the North; 4 Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century : J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles; 5 'Wounded men and wounded trees' : David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle; 6 Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace
- 7 BOOM : Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print8 Window in the Wall : Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel; 9 Re-placing Masculinity : The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6; 10 P.D. James Reads Beowulf; 11 Ban Welondes : Wayland Smith in Popular Culture; 12 'Overlord of the M5' : The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns; 13 The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet; 14 Resurrecting Saxon Things : Peter Reading, 'species decline', and Old English Poetry; INDEX; Backcover