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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

By: Kathleen Forni

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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

By: Kathleen Forni

Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.

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221

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Routledge

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0429880367

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9780429880360

Chaucer's Afterlife

Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

By: Kathleen Forni

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Chaucer's Afterlife

Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

By: Kathleen Forni

This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.

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177

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McFarland

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0786473444

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9780786473441

For Hearth and Altar

African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection

By: Kathleen Bickford Berzock

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African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection

By: Kathleen Bickford Berzock

An extraordinary collection of beautiful ceramic objects that reflect the intimate connection between pottery and village life across the African continent

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208

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DIANE Publishing

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0865592217

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9780865592216

Napa Valley

Land of Golden Vines

By: Kathleen Hill,Gerald N. Hill

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Napa Valley

Land of Golden Vines

By: Kathleen Hill,Gerald N. Hill

This is a guide to the very best of Napa Valley. It takes you to the most interesting restaurants and wineries, as well as the most intriguing shops and lodgings. Discover where the locals go, and meet the people who live, work and cultivate this area.

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324

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0762703067

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9780762703067

Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology

By: Scott M. Auerbach,Kathleen A. Carrado,Prabir K. Dutta

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Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology

By: Scott M. Auerbach,Kathleen A. Carrado,Prabir K. Dutta

The Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology offers effective analyses ofsalient cases selected expressly for their relevance to current and prospective research. Presenting the principal theoretical and experimental underpinnings of zeolites, this international effort is at once complete and forward-looking, combining fundamental

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1202

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CRC Press

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0203911164

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9780203911167

Reforming Priests and Parishes

Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education

By: Kathleen Comerford

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Reforming Priests and Parishes

Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education

By: Kathleen Comerford

A study of diocesan seminaries in Arezzo, Siena, Volterra and Lucca, from 1563-1660s, this book considers financial, educational, and religious perspectives. Florence, Montepulciano, Pienza, and Pisa provide context. Most have never been treated in English, and no comparative study exists.

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182

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BRILL

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904741084X

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9789047410843

Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621

By: Kathleen Comerford

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Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621

By: Kathleen Comerford

Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621 focuses on the cooperation between two new foundations, the last Medici state and the Society of Jesus, spanning nearly a century, concentrating on the Jesuit foundations in Florence, Siena, and Montepulciano. As the Medici built and centralized their power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, they sought to control both the civic and religious behavior of their citizens. They found partners in the Jesuits, whose educational program helped establish social order and maintain religious orthodoxy. Via a detailed investigation of both minor and major Italian Jesuit colleges, and of multiple Medici rulers, Kathleen M. Comerford provides insight into church/state cooperation in an age in which both institutions underwent significant changes.

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9004300570

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9789004300576

This Widowed Land

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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This Widowed Land

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Traveling to North America in the 1630s to help convert the "natives," Jesuit priest Marc Dupre unexpectedly falls in love with a Huron princess and finds himself torn between love and duty.

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452

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Macmillan

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0765357275

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9780765357274

Napa Valley

Land of Golden Vines

By: Kathleen Thompson Hill,Gerald Hill

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Land of Golden Vines

By: Kathleen Thompson Hill,Gerald Hill

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076270652X

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Chaucer's Afterlife

Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

By: Kathleen Forni

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Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

By: Kathleen Forni

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Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film

Chaucer's Afterlife

Chaucer's Afterlife

For Hearth and Altar

For Hearth and Altar

Napa Valley

Napa Valley

Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology

Handbook of Zeolite Science and Technology

Reforming Priests and Parishes

Reforming Priests and Parishes

Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621

Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621

This Widowed Land

This Widowed Land

Napa Valley

Napa Valley

Chaucer's Afterlife

Chaucer's Afterlife

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