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Grendel by John Gardner

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Author Biography

Name: John Gardner
Birth Date: July 21, 1933
Death Date: September 14, 1982
Place of Birth: Batavia, New York, United States
Place of Death: Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Author, Educator

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Biography of John (Champlin) Gardner, Jr.
6097 words, approx. 20.3 pages
John Champlin Gardner, Jr., novelist, epic poet, and scholar, was born in Batavia, New York, on 21 July 1933 to John Champlin and Priscilla Jones Gardner. As a boy he lived in Batavia, attended the local schools, and worked on his father's farm. His moth...
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Biography of John Gardner
4624 words, approx. 15.4 pages
A vastly prolific author of thirty-five books in a career spanning only twenty-five years, John Gardner penned novels, criticism, short stories, works for young readers, a biography of Chaucer, plays, and libretti. Best known for his novels Grendel, The...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Grendel Summary
7,210 words, approx. 24 pages
Grendel by John Gardner Born in Batavia, New York, in 1933, John Gardner suffered lifelong guilt over a fatal tractor accident that killed his younger brother in 1945; the 11-year-old John was at the wheel of the vehicle when his brother, riding in...
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Grendel Information
2,815 words, approx. 9 pages
Grendel is a 1971 parallel novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and...


News and Journals
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The Village Voice
Grendel
07/19/2006: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
Grendel By Julie Taymorand J.D. McClatchy Music by Elliot Goldenthal New York State Theater (closed) Monster Mash Like its set, Grendel's big and rocky, with an empty core George Tsypin's set for Grendel is a giant, jagged...
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
DOUGLAS SCHOOLS VETO BOOK RATINGS BOARD MEMBERS VOTE TO KEEP NOVEL `GRENDEL' BUT EMPHASIZE STUDENTS' RIGHT TO PICK ALTERNATIVES.(Local)
01/22/1997: 429 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Tustin Amole Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer CASTLE ROCK -- The Douglas County school board voted Tuesday night to keep the book Grendel on its high school reading lists and declined to create a rating system for books. But the...
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AP News
Review: `Beowulf' sexes up epic poem
11/14/2007: 770 words, approx. 3 pages
The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread.Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more violence, if that's possible. And nudity — lots and lots of nudity.Director Robert Zemeckis, using the...
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Men's Fitness
The Fit List
11/8/2007: 558 words, approx. 2 pages
1)The NYC MarathonMore than 37,000 runners converge in the Big Apple Nov. 4 for the world’s largest marathon. Think you have what it takes to cross the finish line in Central Park? You’ve got about 365 days to train for next year’s race, starting ....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Norma L. Hutman
2,956 words, approx. 10 pages
[Creative] vision extends truth, shapes … archetype in its own image, commenting imaginatively (and hence more than logically) upon its archetypal mother. This happens all too rarely, but happen it does in John Gardner's Grendel which illustrates the perfect rapport possible between two workings of a single myth. That it can stand beside the epic Beowulf is no small judgment on the achievement of the novel. (p. 19) Central to the novel is the confrontation of chaos and order: Grendel sees chao...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Milosh
2,184 words, approx. 7 pages
The plot of Grendel is based on that of the Old English poem Beowulf, though not in an especially straightforward way. The main action of Beowulf breaks into four parts: the Grendel episode …; the subsequent battle with Grendel's mother …; the return voyage …; and the dragon fight…. In the original, each major conflict concludes before the next begins, and a fifty-year successful reign by Beowulf separates his fight with the dragon from his conquest of Grendel and his moth...
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
An Analysis of a Selection of Quotes from Grendel
4,816 words, approx. 16 pages
Provides a selection of quotes from Grendel, a modern retelling of the Beowulf epic by John Gardner. Analyzes each quote for theme, symbolism, and its importance to the plot.
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Essay Grade: 98%
Creation as an Affirmation of Renewal
1,146 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay compares the themes of creation present in Grendel (John Gardner) and Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) and analyzes how both works prove that man has reason to hope for renewal and the exorcism of evil.
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Essay Grade: 94%
The Archeologist
957 words, approx. 3 pages
An exploration of Nihilism in the novel "Grendel" by John Gardner.
 


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