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Beowulf
Engelsk Paperback
Beowulf
Engelsk Paperback

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A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpieceBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures—a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel’s monstrous mother, and a dragon—and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is “someone who uses his special powers to fight evil,” then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller.   Stephen Mitchell’s marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep “work of literature” but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation—spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry—makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.  
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780300236668
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0300236662
Udg. Dato:
30 okt 2018
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
126mm
Højde:
196mm
Forlag:
Yale University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 okt 2018
Forfatter(e):
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