Sigurd's Lament: An Alliterative Epic - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498295231 ISBN 13 : 9781498295239

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2017

Synopsis

In literature, the advice often given is to show and not tell. In academia, it is the opposite: tell and do not show. Sigurd's Lament is a text that asks the question, can scholarship show rather than tell? On the surface, it is the collected work of a mid-twentieth-century scholar, Hawthorne Basil Peters, who has curated the life's work of his father--the translation of a Welsh epic into the alliterative meter of the English Revival. The poem is produced in full, but so too is the historic introduction, commentary, and academic apparatus. Peters, for the first time, shares with the world his father's wonderful translation and his previously unpublished academic ideas. In a text rife with distention, however, Peters draws the reader's attention to the unexpected flexibility of language and asks only one thing in return: drink deeply. For Sigurd's Lament is a text of the most serious play. It is ambiguous and obfuscating and riddled with footnotes that have lurking within them--like goblins in the weeds--future tales of past narratives.

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Benjamin John Peters is a former United States Marine and two-time veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint PhD Program. He is a husband, father, and writer. You can follow him at www.benjaminjohnpeters.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498295231
• ISBN 13: 9781498295239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Peters Benjamin John
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