Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings

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 para...

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Autor: Gómez Calderón, María José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/63425
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Palabra clave:Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon literature
popular culture
comic book
literatura anglosajona
cultura popular
cómic
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spelling Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary ReadingsGómez Calderón, María JoséBeowulfAnglo-Saxon literaturepopular culturecomic bookliteratura anglosajonacultura popularcómicThis 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 audiencesEste trabajo explora la apropiación del poema anglosajón Beowulf por parte de una manifestación artística tan distintiva del siglo XX como es el cómic. Desde 1941 hasta hoy día, el texto ha sido revisado por diferentes autores a lo largo de las distintas fases del desarrollo del cómic como medio independiente de forma paralela a su legitimación como pieza fundamental de canon literario inglés. En el contexto de la actual construcción de la Edad Media como objeto de consumo, los Beowulfs del cómic se convierten en terreno de negociación entre la cultura oficial y la popular en tanto que revisan la épica germánica altomedieval para adaptarla al gusto del gran público contemporáneoUniversidad de La LagunaFilología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)2007info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11441/63425reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésRevista canaria de estudios ingleses, 55, 107-130.http://publica.webs.ull.es/publicaciones/volumen/revista-canaria-de-estudios-ingleses-volumen-55-2007/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/634252026-06-17T12:51:07Z
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title Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
spellingShingle Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
Gómez Calderón, María José
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon literature
popular culture
comic book
literatura anglosajona
cultura popular
cómic
title_short Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
title_full Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
title_fullStr Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
title_full_unstemmed Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
title_sort Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gómez Calderón, María José
author Gómez Calderón, María José
author_facet Gómez Calderón, María José
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon literature
popular culture
comic book
literatura anglosajona
cultura popular
cómic
topic Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon literature
popular culture
comic book
literatura anglosajona
cultura popular
cómic
description 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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