The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon : a twelfth-century epic : a verse translation /

David Townsend's translation - the first ever into English verse - affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter's poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem's background and significance in literary history, while also suggestin...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Walter, of Châtillon, active 1170-1180
مؤلفون آخرون: Townsend, David, 1955-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
اللاتينية
منشور في: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1996.
سلاسل:Middle Ages series.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18crxvp
الوصف
الملخص:David Townsend's translation - the first ever into English verse - affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter's poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem's background and significance in literary history, while also suggesting how Walter's text resonates with the literary sensibilities of our own times.
Townsend's explanatory notes, adapted in large part from glosses in the surviving manuscripts, allow modern audiences a remarkable glimpse into the ways in which medieval readers of the Alexandreis must have understood the poem.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (xxix, 214 pages).
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix) and index.
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