{"product_id":"anglo-saxon-culture-and-the-modern-david-clark-9781843842514","title":"Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 \u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's \u003ci\u003eAnglo-Saxon Reader\u003c\/i\u003e to Seamus Heaney's \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, and from high modernism to themusclebound 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 asGeoffrey 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 \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e into \u003ci\u003eGrendel\u003c\/i\u003e - 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843842513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843842514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.00d","brand":"David Clark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442602651903,"sku":"9781843842514","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44b3dd74-210d-48f9-a306-f2316fe9bd5f.jpg?v=1777198505","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anglo-saxon-culture-and-the-modern-david-clark-9781843842514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}