The "Alexandreis". A Twelfth-Century Epic (Middle Ages Series) - A verse translation by David Townsend.

Châtillon, Walter of:

ISBN 10: 0812233476 / ISBN 13: 9780812233476

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press. 01.12.1996., 1996

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XXIX, 214 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - "Walter of Chatillon s Alexandras is one of the great lost works of European literature. We have forgotten an epic so well known in the later Middle Ages that the Wife of Bath could expect her audience to recognize a glancing allusion to it. David Townsend makes Walter sing again. This English translation will enable us to rediscover a splendid epic and will encourage some to listen to the Alexandreis in its original melody." Scott D. Westrem, City University of New York -- Written some time in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works of Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience. -- Now David Townsend s splendid translation the first ever into English verse affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter s poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem s background and significance in literary history, while also suggesting how Walter s text resonates with the literary sensibilities of our own times. Townsend s explanatory notes, adapted in large part from glosses in the surviving manuscripts, allow modern audiences a remarkable glimpse into the ways in which medieval readers of the Alexandreis must have understood the poem. ISBN 9780812233476 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 585 15,2 x 1,6 x 22,9 cm, Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The "Alexandreis". A Twelfth-Century Epic (Middle Ages Series) - A verse translation by David Townsend.
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press. 01.12.1996.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0812233476
• ISBN-13: 9780812233476
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Gut
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Gewicht: 585 Gramm
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Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.