Author Archive for: ‘Anke Bernau’

Suspended Animation: Myth, Memory and History in Beowulf

[1] The last ten to fifteen years have witnessed a rapid growth of academic interest in the formal, cultural and political aspects of both medieval film and graphic novels.[2] While more recent scholarship has highlighted their aesthetic as well as cultural complexities, both have been (and sometimes still are) accused of political conservatism (in relation to the former) and frivolity …

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