Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition - Softcover

 
9780393330106: Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393330109 ISBN 13: 9780393330106
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality.

But how to visualize the poet's story has always been a challenge for modern-day readers. In Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, John D. Niles, a specialist in Old English literature, provides visual counterparts to Heaney's remarkable translation. More than one hundred full-page illustrations―Viking warships, chain mail, lyres, spearheads, even a reconstruction of the Great Hall―make visible Beowulf's world and the elemental themes of his story: death, divine power, horror, heroism, disgrace, devotion, and fame. This mysterious world is now transformed into one of material splendor as readers view its elegant goblets, dragon images, and finely crafted gold jewelry against the backdrop of the Danish landscape of its origins.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Seamus Heaney (1939―2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.

John D. Niles is the Nancy C. Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393330109
ISBN 13 
9780393330106
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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