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Desiring Dragons: Creative and Critical Responses to the Dragon in Beowulf

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Fantasy Literature
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Laura Varnam discusses dragons in fantasy literature.
Laura Varnam discusses dragons in fantasy literature, exploring the ways in which the dragon of Beowulf inspired Tolkien in his writing of Smaug, allowed Maria Dahvana Headley to explore female power in her 2020 interpretation of the text, and gave Varnam herself new material for two original poems, read here for the first time.

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Fantasy Literature
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Laura Varnam
Keywords
fantasy
beowulf
dragon
tolkien
the hobbit
Maria Headley
poetry
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 06/07/2021
Duration: 00:35:13

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