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Strange Likeness

By Chris Jones

Strange Likeness

By Chris Jones

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Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2006-11-16
Publication Date:
2006-11-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199278326
ISBN13:
9780199278329
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
529 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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