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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (Medievalism)

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (Medievalism)

by David Clark (Editor), NicholasPerkins (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $151.29
Synopsis

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 Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood, Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection. The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination. They offer fresh insights on established figures, such as W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Jones, and on contemporary writers such as Geoffrey Hill, Peter Reading, P.D. James, and Heaney. They explore the interaction between text, image and landscape in medieval and modern books, the recasting of mythic figures such as Wayland Smith, and the metamorphosis of Beowulf into Grendel - as a novel and as grand opera. The early medieval emerges not simply as a site of nostalgia or anxiety in modern revisions, but instead provides a vital arena for creativity, pleasure, and artistic experiment. Contributors: Bernard O'Donoghue, Chris Jones, Mark Atherton, Maria Artamonova, Anna Johnson, Clare A. Lees, Sian Echard, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Allen J. Frantzen, John Halbrooks, Hannah J. Crawforth, Joshua Davies, Rebecca Anne Barr

$151.29

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 296
 Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Published: 21 Oct 2010
ISBN 10: 1843842513
ISBN 13: 9781843842514

Media Reviews
[T]he editors are to be commended for producing a handsomely illustrated, rich collection. ENGLISH STUDIES This rich collection of essays looks back to the influence of Anglo-Saxon culture in nineteenth-century and modernist writers, and explores a diverse range of more contemporary moments of intersection between past and present . MEDIUM AEVUM Have assembled a scholarly and unfailingly interesting foundation for a study of the impact of the Anglo-Saxon world on our own, as well as proving how much potential there is in the topic. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The book is physically beautiful, soundly edited, and intellectually stimulating from beginning to end. [...] Any medievalist who reads this volume will surely learn something new about the reception of Anglo- Saxon culture, be surprised by the extent of this reception, and get ideas for new research in this area. [...] It is an excellent book that will hopefully make a real intellectual and institutional impact. ANGLIA The collection as a whole makes a powerful and often entertaining case for the myriad pathways by which the Anglo-Saxon past inhabits, enlivens and even transforms the cultural imagination of our present, such that we can see that it never stops informing us about what it means to be English . TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
Author Bio
Having left school aged 15 no-one expected David Clark to become a senior teacher and academic. Following evening classes and then full time further education he has held numerous appointments in the academic world. He has surveyed every major and many minor battlefield in the UK and has written a series of articles for History For All. He lives at Kettering, Northants. Associate Professor and Tutor in English, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford