A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated - Hardcover

Greenfield, Stanley B; Renoir, Alain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809310597 ISBN 13: 9780809310593

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982

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Reseña del editor:

Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering "Beowulf "into contemporary verse: I wanted my translation to be not only faithful to the original but, as the late John Lennon would have put it, A Poem in Its Own Write. I wanted it to flow, to be easy to read, with the narrative movement of a modern prose story; yet to suggest the rhythmic cadences of the Old English poem. I wanted it both modern and Old English in its reflexes and sensibilities, delighting both the general reader and the Anglo-Saxon specialist. . . . I wanted it to reproduce the intoxication of aural contours which might have pleased and amused warriors over their cups in the Anglo-Saxon mead-hall, or those monks in Anglo-Saxon monasteries who paid more attention to song and to stories of Ingeld than to the "lector "and the gospels. Greenfield has succeeded to a remarkable degree in reaching his goals. An early reviewer of the manuscript, Daniel G. Calder of UCLA, wrote: I find it the best translation of "Beowulf."One of the great problems with other translations is that they make the reading of "Beowulf "difficult. Greenfield s translation speeds along with considerable ease. . . Scholars will find the translation fascinating as an exercise in the successful recreating of various aspects of Old English poetic style. "

Biografía del autor:

Stanley B. Greenfield is Professor of English at the University of Oregon and is cofounder of the yearbook, "Anglo-Saxon England, A Critical History of Old English Literature "and "The Interpretation of Old English Poems, "and President of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast.Alain Renoir is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "The Poetry of John Lydgate.""

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0809310597
• ISBN 13: 9780809310593
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 161