Reynard the Fox - A New Translation

James Simpson's translation of the late-middle-English version restores Reynard as part of a tradition that extends to Animal Farm. With all new illustrations, "Reynard the Fox is the animal fable's version of Homer's Odyssey" (Stephen Greenblatt).

Info autore

James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Riassunto

Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, James (Tr. ) Simpson
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Greenblatt (Prefazione), James Simpson (Traduzione)
• Editore: KNV Besorgung
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.05.2015
• EAN: 9780871407368
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-736-8
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 167 mm x 219 mm x 29 mm
• Peso: 462 g
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary