Performance In Beowulf And Other Old English Poems
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Performance In Beowulf And Other Old English Poems
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Author : Steven J. A. Breeze
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Performance In Beowulf And Other Old English Poems written by Steven J. A. Breeze and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Beowulf categories.
Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the imagination, they also influence an audience's view of the world of the original poems, even to propagating certain assumptions, particularly those to do with performance practices. By stripping away these assumptions, this book aims to uncover the ways in which representations of performance in Old English poetry are intimately associated with poetic production and fundamental cultural concerns. Through an examination of Beowulf, diverse wisdom poems, and the "artist" poems Deor and Widsith, it proposes that poets constructed an imaginary domain of "poetic performance", which negotiated tensions between early medieval creativity and core social beliefs. It also shows how the poems' relationship with oral methods of composition and circulation weakened in later medieval poetry as both language and poetic form altered. Overall, the book explores what depictions of performance within these texts can tell us about early medieval conceptualisations, processes, and practices, in the poetic imagination and in wider culture. Through an analysis of Eddic poetry and Laȝamon's Brut, it also highlights a tradition of "poetic performance" in English poetics.
Beowulf And Other Old English Poems
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Author : Craig Williamson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Beowulf And Other Old English Poems written by Craig Williamson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Literary Collections categories.
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter. Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.
Beowulf And Other Old English Poems
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Author : Constance Hieatt
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Release Date : 2010-05-26
Beowulf And Other Old English Poems written by Constance Hieatt and has been published by Bantam Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-26 with Fiction categories.
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.
Translating Beowulf Modern Versions In English Verse
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Author : Hugh Magennis
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015
Translating Beowulf Modern Versions In English Verse written by Hugh Magennis and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions.
Beowulf
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Author : John D. Niles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Beowulf written by John D. Niles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
Beowulf Is My Name
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Author : Frederick R. Rebsamen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Beowulf Is My Name written by Frederick R. Rebsamen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Poetry categories.
On The Aesthetics Of Beowulf And Other Old English Poems
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Author : John M. Hill
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
On The Aesthetics Of Beowulf And Other Old English Poems written by John M. Hill and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry? While there is an apparent consensus by scholars on a core of poems considered to be exceptional literary achievements - Beowulf, Judith, the Vercelli book - there has been little systematic investigation of the basis for these appraisals. With new essays on rhetoric, wordplay, meter, structure, irony, form, psychology, ethos, and reader response, the contributors to this collection aim to find objective aesthetic qualities in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Posing questions of quality and beauty as discoverable in artefacts, On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems significantly advances our understanding not only of aesthetics and Old English poetry, but also of Old English attitudes towards literature as an art form.
Direct Speech In Beowulf And Other Old English Narrative Poems
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Author : Elise Louviot
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Direct Speech In Beowulf And Other Old English Narrative Poems written by Elise Louviot and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry.
Old English Poetry
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Author : Robert Payson Creed
language : en
Publisher: Providence : Brown University Press
Release Date : 1967
Old English Poetry written by Robert Payson Creed and has been published by Providence : Brown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Anglo-Saxons categories.
Complete Beowulf Old English Text Translations And Dual Text Illustrated
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Author : BEOWULF POET
language : en
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Release Date : 2015-03-19
Complete Beowulf Old English Text Translations And Dual Text Illustrated written by BEOWULF POET and has been published by Delphi Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Poetry categories.
A masterpiece of Old English literature, the alliterative epic poem ‘Beowulf’ was written between the 8th and 11th century and narrates the eponymous hero’s battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel’s avenging mother and finally a terrifying dragon that threatens Beowulf’s homeland. Blending myth with history, ‘Beowulf’ celebrates the endurance of the human spirit in the perilous world of the Dark Ages. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents multiple translations, the original Old English text, special Dual Text feature and beautiful illustrations. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to ‘Beowulf’ and the Beowulf Poet’s times * Concise introduction to the epic poem * Images of how the poem was first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original text * Features Francis Barton Gummere's celebrated translation in imitative metre, widely acknowledged as capturing the alliterative pattern of the original Old English text * Includes Gummere's original footnotes to aid comprehension of difficult phrases and sections * Also features William Morris’ well-regarded translation * A translation and the original text of the contemporary fragment THE ATTACK ON FINNSBURG * Excellent formatting of the poetry texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read * Includes the original Old English text * Provides a special dual modern English and Old English text, allowing readers to compare small sections of five lines each – ideal for students * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Translations BEOWULF: BRIEF INTRODUCTION FRANCIS BARTON GUMMERE’S TRANSLATION WILLIAM MORRIS’ TRANSLATION The Old English Text THE OLD ENGLISH TEXT The Dual Text CONTENTS OF THE DUAL TEXT Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles