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  title info:
    title: Beowulf by all
    sub title: community translation and workbook
  title info:
    title: Beowulf. English
  name:
    name part: Abbott, Jean (PhD)
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of added commentary.
  name:
    name part: Treharne, Elaine
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of added commentary.
  name:
    name part: Fafinski, Mateusz
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of added commentary.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Epic poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ang
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (208 pages).
  abstract: This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of the poet's views of heroism, conflict, loyalty and the human condition. The poem is widely taught in schools and universities, and has been adapted, modernized, and translated dozens of times, but this is the first large-scale polyvocal translation. Readers will encounter the voices of over two-hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation. We hope that it turns the common question "Why do we need yet another translation?" on its head, asking instead, "How can we hear from more translators?," and "How can previously unheard, or marginalised voices, find space, like this, in the world of Old English Studies?" With this in mind we invite a new generation of readers to try their own hand at translating Beowulf in the workbook space provided opposite this community translation. It is often through the effort of translating that we see the reality of the original.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE TRANSLATORS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STORY -- OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- A POLYVOCAL EPIC AND EDITORIAL POLICY -- THE POEM KNOWN AS BEOWULF -- GLOSSARY OF CHARACTERS AND TERMS -- SELECT BEOWULF BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF TRANSLATORS
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Jean Abbott, Elaine Treharne, and Mateusz Fafinski.
  note: Preface Introduction Citation Practice The Story: Elaine Treharne On Translation: Jean Abbott A Polyvocal Epic and Editorial Policy: Mateusz Fafinski Translation of the poem known as Beowulf, with accompanying workbook Glossary Bibliography Alphabetical Index of Translators with line numbers.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, English (Old)
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, English (Old)
  classification: PR1583 .A23 2021eb
  classification: 810/820
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Foundations (ARC Humanities Press)
  identifier: 9781641894746
  identifier: 1641894741
  identifier: 9781641894708
  identifier: 9781641894715
  identifier: 1641894717
  identifier: 9781641894746 Arc Humanities Press
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1x675sr
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 210813
    record change date: 20220105170921.0
    record identifier: in00004368638
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng