Beowulf: A Translation (Record no. 57930)

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International Standard Book Number P3.0009.1.00
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Standard number or code 10.21983/P3.0009.1.00
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English, Old (ca.450-1100)
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Personal name Hadbawnik, David
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Title Beowulf: A Translation
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Brooklyn, NY
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2012
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Extent 1 electronic resource (312 p.)
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Terms governing access Open Access
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Summary, etc. Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, philologists, and translators: the emphasis on caesura and alliteration, with diction and syntax smoothed out for readability. The problem with, and the paradox of this desired outcome, especially as it concerns Anglo-Saxon poetry, is that we are left with a document that translates an entire organizing principle based on oral transmission (and perhaps composition) into a visual, textual realm of writing and reading. The sense of loss or nostalgia for the old form seems a necessary and ever-present shadow over modern Beowulfs. What happens, however, when a contemporary poet, quite simply, doesn’t bother with any such nostalgia? When the entire organizational apparatus of the poem—instead of being uneasily approximated in modern verse form—is itself translated into a modern organizing principle, i.e., the visual text? This is the approach that poet Thomas Meyer takes; as he writes, [I]nstead of the text’s orality, perhaps perversely I went for the visual. Deciding to use page layout (recto/ verso) as a unit. Every translation I’d read felt impenetrable to me with its block after block of nearly uniform lines. Among other quirky decisions made in order to open up the text, the project wound up being a kind of typological specimen book for long American poems extant circa 1965. Having variously the “look” of Pound’s Cantos, Williams’ Paterson, or Olson or Zukofsky, occasionally late Eliot, even David Jones
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Terms governing use and reproduction Creative Commons
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Language note English, Old (ca.450-1100)
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Classical texts
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Uncontrolled term Beowulf
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Uncontrolled term Old English poetry
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Uncontrolled term modern translation
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Uncontrolled term avant-garde poetry
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Remein, Daniel C.
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700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hadbawnik, David
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700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Remein, Daniel C.
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