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Why, after all, should we be satisfied merely with Clive Owen's eyes and sensuous mouth?? Walter Raleigh standing at attention! That would pull in the ladies...
But--thinking of the success of "300"--it seems to me that enough swords and killing (which Beowulf has) should also get adolescent boys interested.
tailbraid.I enjoyed the movie (just came back from seeing it).
I mentioned the cartoon here to the friends I went to see it with and earned a rant on how "Beowulf wasn't English literature, the English didn't exist".
Which left me ranting back that most English departments that I knew of did begin Old English literature with Beowulf in translation and reuptable schools were not dumb enough to assume that literature only existed after Chaucer. But I was floundering. I probably could have come up with a better counterrant.
And both friends in question had been to college rather than university. College english courses apparently tend towards grammar and/or business English. And neither of their heigh schools even mentioned Beowulf. I remember a teacher in high school doing a little Beowulf with us, but only in passing.
And I teach college English, and our second year survey course begins with Beowulf. So did the English lit 12 course that I took in high school. And the English dept at UVic has a whole course on Old English literature. So snooks again.