Beowulf
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784106224
ISBN-13
9781784106225
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 27th, 2018
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
272 grams
Dimensions
19.00 x 17.80 x 1.60 cms
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Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody, and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotation.
Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative metrical system, so that readers may experience something of the textures and formal properties of the original. An `Afterword’ explains the translator’s formal choices and explores the nature of this epic, with its emphasis on tribe, location and mortality. `McCully captures the special magic and power of the Beowulf poet’s word-pile and life-thoughts.’ (Martin Duffell, Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London)
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