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"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 oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mize, Britt (Editor ), Gilchrist, Bruce D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Beowulf.
Beowulf > Adaptations.
Children's literature.
Children > Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
Enfants > Livres et lecture > Histoire.
Children > Books and reading > History.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Adaptations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Beowulf in and near Children's Literature
  • 1. "A Little Shared Homer for England and the North": The First Beowulf for Young Readers
  • 2. The Adaptational Character of the Earliest Beowulf for English Children: E.L. Hervey's "The Fight with the Ogre"
  • 3. Tolkien, Beowulf, and Faërie: Adaptations for Readers Aged "Six to Sixty"
  • 4. Treatments of Beowulf as a Source in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children's Literature
  • 5. Visualizing Femininity in Children's and Illustrated Versions of Beowulf
  • 6. What We See in the Grendel Cave: Manipulations of Perspective in Beowulf for Children
  • 7. Beowulf, Bèi'àowǔfǔ, and the Social Hero
  • 8. The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric Beowulfs
  • 9. Children's Beowulfs for the New Tolkien Generation
  • 10. The Practice of Adapting Beowulf for Younger Readers: A Conversation with Rebecca Barnhouse and James Rumford
  • 11. Children's Versions of Beowulf: A Bibliography
  • Index

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