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Unlikeness is us : fourteen from the Exeter book
- Title
- Unlikeness is us : fourteen from the Exeter book / Christopher Patton.
- Publication
- Kentville, NS : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2018.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-3802 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Patton, Christopher
- Description
- 205 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Unlikeness Is Us presents fourteen new translations of Old English poems preserved in the tenth-century Exeter Book, including well-known works like "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer," as well as others rarely seen in translation. Prioritizing their integrity as poetry, Patton's translations work the Anglo-Saxon alliterative line into a patterned, four-beat contemporary English form, retaining the relentless forward drive of the originals and adhering to sometimes idiosyncratic scribal punctuation. Through his critical introduction, notes and commentary, Patton presents the reader with the complex history of these texts' transcription, translation and interpretation, departing from long-dominant Augustinian premises in favour of an approach that embraces the materiality of text and "a world animate, alarming, marvellous, and weird.""--
- Uniform Title
- Exeter book. Selections. English.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Note
- Translation of: Exeter book.
- Poems.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction. Orientation points ; Vagrant inquiry -- The poems. The swan ; The wold ; The deer ; The ruin ; Wisdom, first take ; Clutter of starlings ; His message ; Her case ; The cuckoo ; Wisdom, second take ; The seafarer ; The earthwalker ; Wisdom, last take ; A bookworm -- Commentary & notes -- Rhizomatic bibliography.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3802
- ISBN
- 9781554471751
- 1554471753
- OCLC
- 1104394974
- Title
- Unlikeness is us : fourteen from the Exeter book / Christopher Patton.
- Publisher
- Kentville, NS : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 450-1100
- Added Author
- Patton, Christopher, editor, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3802