Beowulf as children's literature

Beowulf as children's literature / edited by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize.

"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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Other Authors: Gilchrist, Bruce D. (Editor), Mize, Britt (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Beowulf > Adaptations.
Beowulf
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
Children > Books and reading
Children's literature
Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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