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Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"--
Headley provides a radical new verse translation of the epic poem. She brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. The familiar elements of the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
But the commentary...
11) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
"The Anglo-Saxon epic of Beowulf retold for young readers." --
15) Beowulf
Publisher
Borders Classics by special arrangement with Ann Arbor Media Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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