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Gómez Calderón, María José. "Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (2007): 107–27. Added by: joachim (03/07/2020, 18:36) Last edited by: joachim (03/07/2020, 18:37) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: GomezCalderon2007 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Beowulf", Adaptation, Literature, Middle Ages Creators: Gómez Calderón Collection: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses |
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| Attachments | URLs http://riull.ull.e ... i/handle/915/14398 |
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This paper explores the appropriation of the Old English poem Beowulf by such a distinctive 20th-century art-form as the comic book. Since 1941 to present day, the text has been revisited by several authors at different stages of the development of the comic as an independent genre in a process parallel to its legitimation as a central part of the English literary canon. In the context of the modern commodification of the Middle Ages, the Beowulfs in comic book become a territory of negotiation between high and low culture as they revisit early Germanic epic to render it suitable for the taste of wider, contemporary audiences.
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