1st Edition
Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film
By Kathleen Forni
Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
