Beowulf and Judith
Beowulf and Judith

Author: Richard M. Trask

Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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The two great epic-theme poems Beowulf and Judith, paired in the Beowulf Manuscript preserved in the British Museum, are here presented in a translation with a unique fidelity that restores the true Anglo-Saxon rhythmical line of five subtypes of four beat stress adhering scrupulously to the alliterative strictures of Anglo-Saxon verse and exploiting its epithetical style. This is a ground breaking piece of work in that it recreates the indispensable stylistic and esthetic effects of the original while attaining a natural modern idiom, something that had been thought impossible to achieve. The key insight in this book is the stated and demonstrated philosophy that alliteration and imagistic compound metaphors are a living, breathing part of our linguistic heritage and practice in Modern English today; but rendering the poems requires an intricate sensibility to Old English style in order to recreate the force that they had. The Old English text is included interlinearly with the translation to facilitate comparison and acquaintance with the original poems. Introductory essays discuss 1) the living tradition of alliteration and epithetical phrasing common to Anglo-Saxon poetry and Modern English idiom, and 2) the literary tradition and merit of the two poems. The book as a whole is a scholarly accomplishment which revivifies these two great works for the entire modern public.

Pride and Prodigies
Pride and Prodigies

Author: Andy Orchard

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780802085832

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In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.

The Sword of Judith
The Sword of Judith

Author: Kevin R. Brine

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1906924155

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The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.

Juliana
Juliana

Author: Saint Juliana (of Nicomedia)

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Beowulf and Judith
Beowulf and Judith

Author: Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-10

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1000920941

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Beowulf and Judith (1953) contains an extensive introduction to the texts of Beowulf and Judith, the full texts of the poems themselves, and comprehensive notes to the texts.

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript
Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Author: Simon C. Thomson

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004360853

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(Re)introducing the texts of the Nowell Codex -- The passion of Saint Christopher -- The wonders of the East -- The letter of Alexander to Aristotle -- Beowulf -- Judith -- Reading the Nowell Codex in the Eleventh Century -- Reconstructing the Nowell Codex -- Dating and placing the scribes of the Nowell Codex -- Extant gatherings -- Judith, St Christopher and the missing gatherings -- Sequence of production -- The images in the wonders of the East -- A's collection of absurdities? -- The two artists of the Nowell Wonders -- Frames -- Colours -- The planning and control of the images -- Variant styles; multiple exemplars -- Scribe A's performance -- The value of the Nowell Codex's prose texts -- Corrections -- Scribe A's density of copying in Beowulf

The Beowulf Manuscript
The Beowulf Manuscript

Author: R. D. Fulk

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674052951

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R.D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. --Book Jacket.

The Cambridge Old English Reader
The Cambridge Old English Reader

Author: Richard Marsden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 1316240320

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This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.

Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Author: Constance Hieatt

Publisher: Bantam Classics

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0307434826

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Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.

Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf
Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf

Author: Gillian R. Overing

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780809315635

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This is not a book about what Beowulf means but how it means and how the reader participates in the process of meaning construction; to this end, it is a bringing together of contemporary critical theory and Old English poetry. Overing's primary aim is to address the poem on its own terms, to trace and develop an interpretive strategy consonant with the terms of its difference from all other poems. Beowulf's arcane structure describes cyclical repetitions and patterned intersections of themes that baffle a linear perspective; the structure suggests instead the irresolution and dynamism of deconstructionist freeplay of textual elements.