Translating Early Medieval Poetry by Hannah Burrows
The essays here, united by their appreciation of the centrality of translation to the interpretation of the medieval past, add to our understanding of how the old is continually made anew-
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media
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Chivalry and the Medieval Past
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Derek Jarman's Medieval Modern
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Comic Medievalism
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Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy
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The Middle Ages in Computer Games
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Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
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Popularising the Middle Ages in Modern Fantasy
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Georgian Gothic
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Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century
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International Medievalisms
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Francois Villon in English Poetry
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Medievalism in English Canadian Literature
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Old English Medievalism
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Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France
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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
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Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England
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William Morris and the Icelandic Sagas
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Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
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Tennyson's Philological Medievalism
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Medievalism and Reception
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New World Medievalisms
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Subaltern Medievalisms
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Medievalism: a Critical History
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Medievalisms in a Global Age
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National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century
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Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
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Medievalism: Key Critical Terms
The essays are without exception well written, sometimes indeed entertaining as well as scholarly, and any reader interested in early Western European poetry and its translation will find much of interest* PARERGON *
By juxtaposing the three linguistic traditions [Old English, Old Norse, and Celtic], the editors create a crucible that reveals both defaults and the desiderata for each literature, pointing to where scholars might productively enrich and contextualize their particular area of study. * SPECULUM *
[A] view of translation as process, as complex aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual activity with different aims and interests depending upon context. . . . [A]n impressive blend of art and scholarship. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
High quality scholarship that has such a wide potential audience, far beyond the borders of academia, is rare, and definitely very welcome. * TOEBI *
By juxtaposing the three linguistic traditions [Old English, Old Norse, and Celtic], the editors create a crucible that reveals both defaults and the desiderata for each literature, pointing to where scholars might productively enrich and contextualize their particular area of study. * SPECULUM *
[A] view of translation as process, as complex aesthetic, cultural, and intellectual activity with different aims and interests depending upon context. . . . [A]n impressive blend of art and scholarship. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *
High quality scholarship that has such a wide potential audience, far beyond the borders of academia, is rare, and definitely very welcome. * TOEBI *
M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario. CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Emerita Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John's College, Oxford. GARETH LLOYD EVANS is Lecturer in Medieval Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843844730 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843844737 |
| Title | Translating Early Medieval Poetry |
| Author | Tom Birkett |
| Series | Medievalism |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | D.S.Brewer |
| Year published | 2017-10-20 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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