IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 440: 'New' Tolkien: The Fall of Arthur and the Beowulf Translation - A Round Table Discussion
Monday 6 July 2015, 19.00-20.00
| Organiser: | Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gerard Hynes, School of English, Trinity College Dublin |
| Abstract | This session will focus on works by J. R. R. Tolkien edited and published recently by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien. Speakers will comment on Tolkien's unfinished alliterative poem The Fall of Arthur (2013) and his translation of Beowulf (2014) which was published together with Tolkien's commentary and related Beowulf-inspired literary pieces. Participants include Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Dimitra Fimi (Cardiff Metropolitan University), and Nick Groom (University of Exeter). |