Reynard the Fox A New Translation
Innbundet /
2015
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9780871407368
Published
2015-04-21
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
513 gr
Height
218 mm
Width
165 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
248
Translated by
Foreword by
Biographical note
James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist."The medieval story of the crafty trickster is brought alive in a new translation."
- The Tablet,
James Simpson’s translation of the late-middle-English version restores Reynard as part of a tradition that extends to Animal Farm. With all new illustrations, "Reynard the Fox is the animal fable’s version of Homer’s Odyssey" (Stephen Greenblatt).
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Like Seamus Heaney's <em>Beowulf</em>, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.
Product details
ISBN
9780871407368
Published
2015-04-21
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
513 gr
Height
218 mm
Width
165 mm
Thickness
23 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
248
Translated by
Foreword by