Isbn: 9780812211290 - a feast of creatures: anglo-saxon riddle songs (21 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. xii + 231 pp. Minor bend along bottom of back cover, o/w fine, clean, and unmarked.

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Paperback. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Covers have shelf wear.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.…

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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 248 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers before him, Williamson gives voice to the nightingale, plow, ox, phallic onion, and storm-wind. In lean and taut language he offers us mead disguised as a mighty wrestler, the sword as a celibate thane, the silver wine-cup as a seductress, the horn transformed from head-warrior to ink-belly or battle-singer. In his notes and commentary he gives us possible and probable solutions, sources, and analogues, a shrewd sense of literary play, and traces the literary and cultural contexts in which each riddle may be viewed. In his introduction, Williamson traces for us the history of riddles and riddle scholarship.…

Condizione: New. In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson combines his training as a medievalist, anthropologist, and literary critic with his talent as a translator and poet. Here he recasts nearly 100 Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that y.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 248.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 248.

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 248.

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