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Kathleen Forni

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Description: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 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. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated. The conservatism of Beowulf's cultural legacy is in part a product of the logic of the text itself, which associates dominant interests not only with social welfare but with civilization itself. Beowulf's new monsters, however, have motive, challenging the legitimizing myths embodied in the poem and responding to our historical moment, betraying an unease with pervasive political rhetoric that defines our enemies as simply monstrous evil.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture). To get started finding Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 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. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated. The conservatism of Beowulf's cultural legacy is in part a product of the logic of the text itself, which associates dominant interests not only with social welfare but with civilization itself. Beowulf's new monsters, however, have motive, challenging the legitimizing myths embodied in the poem and responding to our historical moment, betraying an unease with pervasive political rhetoric that defines our enemies as simply monstrous evil.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture). To get started finding Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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