{"product_id":"9781641894708-beowulf-by-all","title":"Beowulf by All","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommunity Translation and Workbook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is Open Access and available from OAPEN. \u003cem\u003eBeowulf by All\u003c\/em\u003e is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem, produced for the first time in workbook form to encourage readers to create their own personal translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. \u003cem\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/em\u003etells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of the poet’s views of heroism, conflict, loyalty, and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem is widely taught in schools and universities, and has been adapted, modernized, and translated dozens of times, but this is the first large-scale polyvocal translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation. We hope that it turns the common question \"Why do we need yet \u003cem\u003eanother\u003c\/em\u003e translation?\" on its head, asking instead, \"How can we hear from \u003cem\u003emore\u003c\/em\u003e translators?,\" and \"How can previously unheard, or marginalized voices, find space, like this, in the world of Old English Studies?\" With this in mind we invite a new generation of readers to try their own hand at translating \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e in the workbook space provided opposite this community translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is often through the effort of translating that we see the reality of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as Open Access.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40638572626017,"sku":"9781641894708","price":156.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27718324.jpg?v=1722000115","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781641894708-beowulf-by-all","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}