9780812278439 - a feast of creatures: anglo-saxon riddle-songs (3 Ergebnisse)
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Anbieter: Palimpsest Scholarly Books & Services, Brooktondale, NY, USAPalimpsest Scholarly Books & Services
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover volume shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Contains bibliography for notes and commentary. Index of solutions in also present. xii/230 pages.
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Anbieter: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, USALast Exit Books
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA. 1982. 248 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ow…nership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship. EB; 248 pages.
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Anbieter: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, Vereinigtes KönigreichRichard Booth's Bookshop
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HardBack. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. 248pp. Signed and dedicated by the author to front free endpaper. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in Brig…ht gilt lettered red cloth, together with original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper gently rubbed to foot and with 2 short chips to head. Of interest to medievalists, lovers of modern poetry, anthropologists and folklorists, linguists and philosophers, psychologists and anyone who remembers as a child the glory of riddles. The old riddles of The Exeter Book recast into modern poetry. A gem of a book.
