Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo

• Main Author: Francesco Giusti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French; Italian
• Published: UNICApress 2011
• Subjects: 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; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/175; https://doaj.org/article/87ddc3df8be0442eadd7b41a99f625ac

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...