Maria Dahvana Headley on 'The Mere Wife' and 'Beowulf'
Author Maria Dahvana Headley reads from her 2018 novel 'The Mere Wife', is interviewed by Prof. Carolyne Larrington, and shares drafts from her 2020 translation of 'Beowulf'. This lecture was recorded live at St John’s College, Oxford in November 2018.
A transcript is available.
Date Published:
30 June 2021
Contributors:
Carolyne Larrington, Maria Dahvana Headley, David Clark
In Collection(s):
Fantasy Literature: Further Thinking, Old English Then and Now
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