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Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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 the contours...
3) Beowulf
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
Language
English
Description
Written one thousand years ago, Beowulf is the oldest surviving work in Old English, and the first of its kind to make the transition from the oral tradition to written form. Filled with vivid battle scenes, it is named for a young warrior in fifth-century Scandinavia who achieves glory by fighting and killing various monsters and governing his land wisely for 50 years.
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