Download Full eBooks in PDF
Beowulf Dragonslayer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Beowulf Dragonslayer book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140302549
The story of Beowulf's life, his battle with the monster Grendel, and his death after a fight with a dragon.
Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446404614
Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came, thirty of Hothgar's best and noblest thanes were missing. Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors, has the strength and courage to battle with Grendel the Night-stalker. In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Rosemary Sutcliff recounts Beowulf's most terrifying quests: against Grendel the man-wolf, against the hideous sea-hag and, most courageous of all - his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake.
Author : Joseph A. McCullough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472801036
With its fiery breath, scaly armour, and baleful, malevolent stare, the dragon became the ultimate symbol of evil and corruption in European folklore and mythology. Often serving as a stand-in for Satan, or the power of evil gods, dragons spread death and hopelessness throughout the land. Only heroes of uncommon valour, courageousness, and purity could hope to battle these monsters and emerge victorious. Those that did became legends. They became dragonslayers. The list of dragonslayers is small, but it is filled with great and legendary names. Hercules, Beowulf, Sigfried, and Saint George all battled to the death with dragons. Other heroes such as Cadmus, founder of the city of Thebes, Dieudonné de Gozon, the Knight of Rhodes, and the Russian warrior Dobrynya Nikitch might be less well known to western readers, but also fought and defeated dragons. This book retells the greatest legends of this select group of warriors, while examining the myth of the dragonslayer in a historical, mythological, and even theological context.
Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1259488762
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111100
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099972700
Author : Bruce Gilchrist,Britt Mize
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487515850
The single largest category of Beowulf representation and adaptation, outside of direct translation of the poem, is children’s literature. Over the past century and a half, more than 150 new versions of Beowulf directed to child and teen audiences have appeared, in English and in many other languages. In this collection of original essays, Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize examine the history and processes of remaking Beowulf for young readers. Inventive in their manipulations of story, tone, and genre, these adaptations require their authors to make countless decisions about what to include, exclude, emphasize, de-emphasize, and adjust. This volume considers the many forms of children’s literature, focusing primarily on picture books, illustrated storybooks, and youth novels, but taking account also of curricular aids, illustrated full translations of the poem, and songs. Contributors address issues of gender, historical context, war and violence, techniques of narration, education, and nationalism, investigating both the historical and theoretical dimensions of bringing Beowulf to child audiences.
Author : Jodi-Anne George
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137098016
Of unknown authorship, Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which incites contentious debate and has been endlessly interpreted over the centuries. This Reader's Guide provides a much-needed overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism, moving from 18th century reactions to 21st century responses. Jodi-Ann George: - Charts the changes in critical trends and theoretical approaches applied to the poem. - Includes discussion of J. R. R. Tolkein's pioneering 1936 lecture on Beowulf , and Seamus Heaney's recent translation. - Analyses Beowulf in popular culture, addressing the poem's life in film versions, graphic novels, music and comics. Clear and engaging, this is an indispensable introductory guide to a widely-studied and enigmatic work which continues to fascinate readers everywhere.
Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429880360
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.
Author : Hugh Magennis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781843843948
An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : OCLC:22232453
A prose version of the Old English epic poem Beowulf about a fierce warrior's struggle against a hideous monster. A tale of witches, magic and royalty.
Author : Richard Scott Nokes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781476648422
The legendary story of Beowulf comes to us in only one medieval manuscript with no illustrations. Modern comic book and graphic novel artists have created visual interpretations of Beowulf for decades, both illustrating and altering the classic story to pull out new themes.This book examines the growing canon of Beowulf comic books and graphic novels since the 1940s, and shows the remarkable emergence of new traditions--from re-envisioning the medieval look, to creating new plotlines, and even to transforming his identity. While placing Beowulf in a fantastical medieval setting, a techno-dystopia of the future, or modern-day America, artists have appropriated the tale to comment on social issues such as war, environmental issues, masculinity, and consumerism. Whether Beowulf is fighting new monsters or allying with popular comic book superheroes, these artists are creating a new canon of illustration that redefines Beowulf's place in our culture.
Author : Anja Müller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441152817
Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common ground for intercultural communication across generations and borders. This collection analyses different examples of adapting canonical texts in or for children's literature encompassing adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers and intercultural adaptations of children's classics across Europe. The international contributors assess both historical and transcultural adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across age-specific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common literary and cultural heritage in European children's literature.
Author : Chris Bishop
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496808530
The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it was to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant. In the narrative of Red Sonja, we can trace a parallel history of feminism. Bishop regards these comics as not merely happenchance, but each success (Prince Valiant and The Mighty Thor) or failure (Beowulf: Dragon Slayer) as a result and an indicator of certain American preoccupations amid a larger cultural context. Intrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, American comics have ironically continued to engage with the European Middle Ages. Bishop illuminates some of the ways in which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century.
Author : Paul D. Storrie
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780822585121
In graphic novel format, retells the story of the warrior Beowulf who fought the monster Grendel and his mother, but who succumbed as an old man to a dragon's poison.