In Geardagum
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Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : English language |
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Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Loren C. Gruber |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Author | : Sebastian I. Sobecki |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843841371 |
A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of a wide range of both insular and continental writings.
Author | : Michael Getty |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110905418 |
This book presents a novel treatment of the metre of Beowulf, an Old English epic poem of uncertain date and origin which is nonetheless considered one of the gems of Germanic Alliterative Verse. Building on recent advances in generative linguistics, the analysis presented in this book offers compelling explanations for a wide range of metrical phenomena that have been observed but only poorly understood for over a century.
Author | : Loren C. Gruber |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Roy Liuzza |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551111896 |
The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the poem's final creation will help readers see Beowulf as an exploration of the politics of kingship and the psychology of heroism, and as an early English meditation on the bridges and chasms between the pagan past and the Christian present. A generous sample of other modern versions of Beowulf sheds light on the process of translating the poem.
Author | : John Biguenet |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1989-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780226048697 |
These essays offer insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating literature but also suggest the implications of the act of translation for critics, scholars, teachers, and students. The demands of translation, according to these writers, require both comprehensive scholarship in preparing to translate a text and broad creativity in recreating the text in a new language. Translation, thus, becomes a model for the most exacting reading and the most serious scholarship. Some of the contributors lay bare the rigorous methods of literary translation in comparisons of various translations of the same piece some discuss the problems of translating a specific passage others speak about the lessons learned over the course of a career in translation. As these essays make clear, translators work in the space between languages and, in so doing, provide insights into the ways in which a culture makes the world verbal. --From publisher's description.
Author | : Hugh Magennis |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1843843943 |
Translations of the Old English poem 'Beowulf' proliferate, and their number continues to grow. Focussing on the particularly rich period since 1950, this book presents a critical account of translations in English verse, setting them in the contexts both of the larger story of recovery and reception of the poem and perceptions of it.
Author | : Richard A. Horsley |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451411669 |
Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would constitute what we know as the end result, the written Gospels.
Author | : Ragnar Ingi Adalsteinsson |
Publisher | : University of Iceland Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-06-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9935230368 |
Traditions and Continuities - Alliteration in Old and Modern Icelandic Verse, is a lucid and authorative treatment of Old Icelandic alliterative metre, and of the subtle changes it underwent as the language evolved into later and modern Icelandic. It falls into four sections, beginning with an exhaustive account of the mechanics of alliteration and their development up until the present; a review of the development of research into the subject; the author's own research into the nature of alliterative verse, with special attention to complex phenomena such as vowel alliteration, s-clusters an hv-alliteration; and final section summarizing the main conclusions. Written by a scholar and poet, this is an essential handbook for the English-speaking research student in the subject.