Estrategias y recursos para la reelaboración de un poema heroico medieval en el siglo XXI: los Beowulfs de Robert Zemeckis y Caitlín R. Kiernan

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  • Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre Universidad de Murcia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/j103311
Keywords: medieval literature, anglo-saxon literature, Beowulf, literary adaptation, film adaptation, popular culture, intertextuality

Abstract

The Middle Ages has been privileged in countless adaptations within popular culture. The number of movies, novels, graphic novels, toys, computer games and even amusement parks based on different aspects related to this historical period is indeed very high. The anglo-saxon poem Beowulf is not an exception and there are dozens of adaptations or recreations which ‘appropiate’ the poem in different formats. Some of the most recent are the Hollywood movie Beowulf by Robert Zemeckis (2007) and the novel Beowulf by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2007), both relying on the script by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary (2007). In this paper I study both proposals, firstly by looking at them from the perspective of popular culture and secondly by tracing their connections with the original Old English poem. This allows me to draw the literary and cultural strategies which link the adaptations to the original, thereby adding an intellectual component to the popular versions.

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Conde Silvestre, J. C. (2009). Estrategias y recursos para la reelaboración de un poema heroico medieval en el siglo XXI: los Beowulfs de Robert Zemeckis y Caitlín R. Kiernan. Murcian Medieval Miscellany, (33), 9–31. https://doi.org/10.6018/j103311
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