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Author: Asa Simon Mittman Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) ISBN: 9780866984812 Category : Beowulf Languages : en Pages : 0
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Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefraegelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant-and means-to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies. Book jacket.
Author: Asa Simon Mittman Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) ISBN: 9780866984812 Category : Beowulf Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefraegelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant-and means-to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies. Book jacket.
Author: A. J. Ford Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004301399 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 194
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Marvel and Artefact examines the three surviving manuscripts of Wonders of the East (London, BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv; London, BL, Cotton Tiberius B. v; and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 614). After outlining the learned tradition of writing on monsters and marvels and the family of texts of which the Wonders of the East is part, A. J. Ford offers a forensic reading of each manuscript in which codex, text and image are studied together as a single artefact. By focussing on the materiality of manuscripts whose origin can only be hypothesized, this innovative and challenging work opens new vistas for the study and interpretation of medieval manuscripts and the cultures that produced them.
Author: Catalani Bishop of Columbum active 1302-1330 Jordanus Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 82
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Mirabilia descripta is an ancient travelog about countries scattered throughout the African and Asian continents. Contents: The Mediterranean, Concerning Armenia, Concerning the Realm of Persia, Concerning India the Less, cont.
Author: Andy Orchard Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802085832 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 370
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In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts.
Author: Buzurg ibn Shahriyār Publisher: East-West Publications Fonds ISBN: 9780856920639 Category : Asia Languages : en Pages : 123
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Captain Buzurg ibn Shahriyar, a shipmaster from the Persian province of Khuzistan compiled this collection of sailors tales between 900 and 953. This new translation captures all the charm and spontaneity of the original text. Dr Freeman-Grenville has supplied an informative introduction, gazetteer, and bibliography.
Author: Alisa Solomon Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0805095292 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 484
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A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark. In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination—a major Hollywood picture. Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is "so Japanese." Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles.
Author: Elena Medel Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1643752111 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
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"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--
Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Author: A. J. Ford
Author: Catalani Bishop of Columbum active 1302-1330 Jordanus
Author: Jordanus (Catalani, Bishop of Columbum)
Author: Camille Flammarion
Author: Andy Orchard
Author: R. D. Fulk
Author: Buzurg ibn Shahriyār
Author: Alisa Solomon
Author: Elena Medel