Beowulf Other Stories

Author : Joe Allard,Richard North
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317860426

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Beowulf and Other Stories by Joe Allard,Richard North Pdf

Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. Now in a fully revised second edition, the collection of essays written by leading academics in the field is set to build upon its established reputation as the standard introduction to the literatures of the time. Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasy of The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood, andprovide the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and enjoy this complex but rewarding field. The book sheds light, too, on the shadowy contexts of the period, with suggestive and highly readable essays on matters ranging from the dynamism of the Viking Age to Anglo-Saxon input into The Lord of the Rings, from the great religious prose works to the transition from Old to Middle English. It also branches out into related traditions, with expert introductions to the Icelandic Sagas, Viking Religion and Norse Mythology. Peter S. Baker provides an outstanding guide to taking your first steps in the Old English language, while David Crystal provides a crisp linguistic overview of the entire period. With a new chapter by Mike Bintley on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a revised chapter by Stewart Brookes on the prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform, this updated second edition will be essential reading for students of the period.

Author : Richard North,Joe Allard
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Anglo-Norman literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106018883048

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Beowulf & Other Stories by Richard North,Joe Allard Pdf

Changing the way that students think about literary history, this book rips up the rule book and brings Old English into the 21st Century.

Author : Peter S. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470659847

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Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker Pdf

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care

Author : Richard North,Joe Allard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anglo-Norman literature
ISBN : 1408286505

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Beowulf & Other Stories by Richard North,Joe Allard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111100

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Beowulf by Anonim Pdf

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 : Nicole Markotić
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770567146

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After Beowulf by Nicole Markotić Pdf

CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD hwæt, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly... Welcome to Denmark’s Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, Saxon’s cradle-made monster. Dissing this ur-outsider initiates a predictable and monstrous backlash, a Mediæval fracas that only the eponymous Beowulf can quash. Sailing across the whaleroads, he arrives to “quell and queltch and quatch the Grendel beast.” Beowulf, that still-recognizable hero, embodies a “blank” function, a motive-driven yet motiveless megastar. He’s the young, fit, male, self-sacrificing protagonist-interloper who will fight any monster to protect his people. Or to defend strangers. Or to gain a reputation. Or because he just really wants to... In her rendering of Beowulf, Nicole Markotić offers a rollicking cover song of fantastical text. These pages will surprise readers as they introduce new ways to embrace, challenge, or click with Anglo-Saxon heroics. Writing original poems, Markotić de-stories the story of one man, who mostly does not play well with others, who fights monsters (and defeats their mothers, too), and who practically invents the poetic tradition of entitled bravery Upending the tale with her fresh and enchanting style, Markotić gives a nod to previous translations, winks at canonical critics, bares historical biases, all while gifting transmogrifying pages that will whet your whimsy! "Nicole Markotić takes the original English-language epic and reprocesses it. That is, she rereads, rewrites, reimagines, rethinks, and retells it, all at the same time. The result is the story re-understood. The phrasing and incantation is Markotić’s own (and our era’s own), deployed with deliciously textured and diverse registers of language. Blake saw infinity in the palm of his hand. Markotić puts a millennium in yours." —Wayde Compton, author of The Outer Harbour "Beowulf, with its unfathomable monsters and monster-slaying hero, its bro world of mead, boasting, weapons, and booty, remains a stubbornly relevant template for much of our contemporary scene. Nicole Markotić’s After Beowulf handles all this with dazzling sprezzatura. It is a pleasure to follow the narrating, condensing, commenting voice as it sashays through a range of verbal registers from high Olsonic to comic book pratfall, snark to scholarship. After Beowulf provides an up-to-date reading of Beowulf through the eyes of a feminist poet. And it continually suggests what things might be like after Beowulf." —Bob Perelman, author of Jack and Jill in Troy "The collision of ancient and colloquial language creates bursts of humour as my dude Beowulf makes his way into the banquet hall and beyond. Linger here to experience the aesthetics of poetry in action: vibrant and intensely moving, we feel the wrenching pain of Grendel’s mother. Markotić’s language is thick with meaning and light with humour: a creation of the most projective of verses." —Jacqueline Turner, author of Flourish

Author : Bruce Gilchrist,Britt Mize
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487515850

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Beowulf as Children’s Literature by Bruce Gilchrist,Britt Mize Pdf

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 : Maria Dahvana Headley
Publisher : MCD
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374715540

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The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings—high and gabled—and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside—in lawns and on playgrounds—wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall’s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide.

Author : James Rumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 061875637X

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Beowulf, a Hero's Tale Retold by James Rumford Pdf

A simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon that threatened the kingdom.

Author : Constance Hieatt
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307434821

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Beowulf and Other Old English Poems by Constance Hieatt Pdf

Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Dragons
ISBN : 9357240780

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Beowulf by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544442788

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Beowulf by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Pdf

Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

Author : Tom Holt
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748113811

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Who's Afraid Of Beowulf? by Tom Holt Pdf

'Brilliantly funny.' - DAILY MAIL 'Witty and eccentric... dazzling, neat, frivolous.' - TIME OUT The last Norse king of Caithness, Hrolf Earthstar and his 12 champions are woken from a centuries-long sleep when an archaeologist finds their grave. He decides to carry on his ancient war against the Sourcerer-King, and must face such perils as BBC film crews and the Bakerloo line along the way. From one of the best-loved comic writers in fantasy fiction comes another absurdly witty title - perfect for fans of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard J.W. Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug Novels Expecting Someone Taller Who's Afraid of Beowulf Flying Dutch Ye Gods! Overtime Here Comes the Sun Grailblazers Faust Among Equals Odds and Gods Djinn Rummy My Hero Paint your Dragon Open Sesame Wish you Were Here Alexander at World's End Only Human Snow White and the Seven Samurai Olympiad Valhalla Nothing But Blue Skies Falling Sideways Little People Song for Nero Meadowland Barking Blonde Bombshell The Management Style of the Supreme Beings An Orc on the Wild Side

Author : Oakley Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925275930

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Beowulf the Brave by Oakley Graham Pdf

Author : Alexis E. Fajardo
Publisher : Kid Beowulf
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 0974600067

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Kid Beowulf and the Rise of El Cid by Alexis E. Fajardo Pdf

Beowulf and Grendel are in war-torn Spain, where honor is hard-fought, allegiances are dubious, and the bulls run wild! Amidst it all comes a young knight named Rodrigo, who fights for the name he's lost, the land he loves, and the virtue they've both forgotten. "Kid Beowulf and the Rise of El Cid," is the third book in the acclaimed graphic novel adventure series "Kid Beowulf!"