Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo
As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door. The Other, the monstrous is close, very close to the...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:87ddc3df8be0442eadd7b41a99f625ac 2023-10-01T03:56:59+02:00 Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo Francesco Giusti 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/175 https://doaj.org/article/87ddc3df8be0442eadd7b41a99f625ac EN FR IT eng fre ita UNICApress http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/175 https://doaj.org/toc/2039-6597 2039-6597 doi:10.13125/2039-6597/175 https://doaj.org/article/87ddc3df8be0442eadd7b41a99f625ac Between, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2011) Mostruoso Beowulf Ricezione Grendel Limiti dell’umano Cinema Zemeckis Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 Translating and interpreting P306-310 article 2011 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/175 2023-09-03T00:46:02Z As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door. The Other, the monstrous is close, very close to the human community and is genetically tied with it. This is a point of particular interest on which the Twentieth century attempts to rewrite the Anglo-Saxon poem focus so as to create new possibilities and patterns for the clash, and to investigate the limits of the human. The paper focuses on two recent movies: Beowulf & Grendel (Gunnarsson, Iceland 2005) e Beowulf (Zemeckis, USA 2007). These movies, notwithstanding the differences in technique, genre and intention, clearly show some shared trends in the background, beyond the more general influence of the former on the latter. For they both re-read the old poem as the story of the infraction of a boundary and the cultural encounter between the human community, championed by Beowulf, and that Otherness represented by the monstrous Grendel. If the religious aspect, privileged by the medieval narrator, blurs in the movies, they bring to the surface some inner fears which are latent in the poem and are tied to two dangerous spaces of possible intersection and intermingling: the ethno-anthropological and the psycho-genetic aspects of human life and story. Two fears that belong definitely to contemporary men more than to the medieval world. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Beowulf ENVELOPE(161.800,161.800,-77.633,-77.633) |
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As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door. The Other, the monstrous is close, very close to the human community and is genetically tied with it. This is a point of particular interest on which the Twentieth century attempts to rewrite the Anglo-Saxon poem focus so as to create new possibilities and patterns for the clash, and to investigate the limits of the human. The paper focuses on two recent movies: Beowulf & Grendel (Gunnarsson, Iceland 2005) e Beowulf (Zemeckis, USA 2007). These movies, notwithstanding the differences in technique, genre and intention, clearly show some shared trends in the background, beyond the more general influence of the former on the latter. For they both re-read the old poem as the story of the infraction of a boundary and the cultural encounter between the human community, championed by Beowulf, and that Otherness represented by the monstrous Grendel. If the religious aspect, privileged by the medieval narrator, blurs in the movies, they bring to the surface some inner fears which are latent in the poem and are tied to two dangerous spaces of possible intersection and intermingling: the ethno-anthropological and the psycho-genetic aspects of human life and story. Two fears that belong definitely to contemporary men more than to the medieval world. |
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Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo |
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