Telling tales and crafting books: essays in honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren

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Introduction / Alexander L. Kaufman -- OLD ENGLISH AND THE NORTH. Grendel as Novelistic Outlaw-Hero: A Girardian Reading / Eric R. Carlson -- The Evolution of Monster Fights: From Beowulf versus Grendel to Jan Gudmundsson laeroi versus the Snaefjalladraugur and Beyond / Shaun F. D. Hughes -- Salvation Twice Told: Idolatry, Typology, and Repentance in Genesis B / J. A. Jackson -- Vision and Sex in the Iconography of the Old English Genesis Manuscript / Molly Martin -- Heroic/Apocalyptic Metalandscapes in Some Anglo-Scandanavian Art / E. L. Risden -- ROBIN HOOD. Feasts in the Forest / Stephen Knight -- Show or Tell? Priority and Interplay in the Early Robin Hood Play/Games and Poems / John Marshall -- "...something of the air of a celebration": Scott, Peacock, and Maid Marian / Alan T. Gaylord -- Two Ancient Ballads: "Robin Hood's Courtship with Jack Cade's Daughter" and "The Freiris Tragedie": An Edition / Alexander L. Kaufman -- "The grasping, rasping Norman race": Victorian Nationalism and Sir George Alexander Macfarren's 1860 Opera, "Robin Hood" / Kevin J. Harty -- BOOKS AND LITERATURE. The Evangelist Symbols in the Judith of Flanders Gospels: Devotion, Prestige, and Cultural Production / Mary Dockray-Miller -- Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book / Robert Boenig -- Lancelot the One-Time Outlaw: Fallenness and Forgiveness in the Morte D'arthur / Jack Ray Baker -- Thomas H. Ohlgren's Published Writings.