Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl
These translations by Marie Borroff not only are one of the great achievements of the translator s craft but are works of art in their own right Lee Patterson, Frederick W Hilles Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies, Yale University. New Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl [ author ] Unknown [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Nearly done teaching it Borroff s translation is, I guess, tied for the best available, but and I hate to be a snob about it there s really no substitute for the original I doubt Borroff would disagree with me.which isn t to say that the translation can t be improved in places for example, a nice short piece by R J Dingley in Explicator some years back suggested that the gyn of Patience 146 Hit wat3 a ioyles gyn at Jonas wat3 inne be glossed as craft, while Borroff does it as Nearly done teaching it Borroff s transla...The technical and poetic skill of the Pearl Poet, combined with the technical and poetic skill of translator Marie Borroff magnificence All the introductory essays help tremendously with cultural context and what to look for Gawain remains one of my favorite tales of all time So many books lose t...One of the wonderful things about Medieval literature is that its tools and templates are quite strict and often familiar, and I still don t know how it s going to end I was pulled through this poem on the basis of sheer anticipation The ending still threw me for a loop.Lately I want books about heroes people who do the hard thing even when they don t have to, who suffer discomfort without complaint, who rely on their wits and strength and curteisye toward others I don t really want to be One of the wonderful things about Medieval literature is that its tools and templates ar...A descriptively vivid and highly alliterative musical style gives this poem, just superficially, a high interest Beyond that, we have one of the greatest allegories of romance ever conceived, and a masterfully woven plot that guides the reader along as if on gently sloping hills Gawain is so difficult to categorize, however, because the plot seems light and breezy, there is literally laughter throughout the whole poem, but the events tell a tale of a profound limitation hidden within human nat A descriptively vivid and highly alliterative musical style gives this poem, just superficially, a high interest Beyond that, we have one of the greatest allegories of romance ever conceived, and a masterfully woven ...I enjoyed finally being able to finish Sir Gawain and the Green Knight My english lit book in highschool had told the first part, but did not finish it So for about 2 years I was doomed to wondering how Gawain got out of it alive or if he even did I was therefore please when I found a cop...This is a nice translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight It reads very smoothly, and is quite accurate to the original Middle English.Amateur medievalists this translation is quite good.If you re interested in this volume at all, I m guessing you can hack your way through Chaucer in the original but not the Gawain poet That s my situation, anyway The Gawain poet s Middle English is a little much for me I found Borr...I m sure I would have liked it better if I understood it It did help that I had to read it for a class so my professor could help us explore the value of it Literature like this is hard because there is...Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of my favorite poems I ve struggled through it in the original for English class, but this translation was much easier and thereforefun to read She did a great job with all the alliteration On a related note, I r... Pearl is not only astonishingly skilfully crafted for maximum beauty and limpidity it is also the most feminine erotic poem I have ever read This review is of Pearl only The other two works in the collection are translated by Borroff and are entirely separate entities from Pearl.
- English
- 19 November 2017 Unknown
- Paperback
- 208 pages
- 0393976580
- Unknown
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Patience; Pearl