Beowulf

Beowulf

Seamus Heaney's best-selling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images....
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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

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ForfatterCrossley-Holland, Kevin
ForlagOxford Univ Pr
Utgivelsesdato2015-03
Utgivelsesår2015
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TypeBøker
SpråkEngelsk
SjangerLitteraturvitenskap
FormatInnbundet
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TypPapirbøker

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