Heller Simon

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Simon is a final-year doctoral student at the University of Oxford, where he is working on Old English poetry, medievalism, and theories of adaptation. His DPhil thesis examines the North American reception of the Old English poem Beowulf through the analysis of a corpus of novelistic adaptations published during the 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on John Gardner's Grendel (1971), Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead (1976), and Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes' The Legacy of Heorot (1987), his work explores the way these authors transformed and recast Beowulf in the service of conservative ideologies during times of social, cultural, and political crisis in the United States. 

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