FORTHCOMING
Should we expect a panoply of loquacious objects to chatter on about their experiences exactly as we would? This collection of creative (re)translations, The Queer Life of Riddles, explores the ways these thousand-year-old lyrics lay athwart our expectations, veering in their own directions and refusing to conform to our canons of respectability. How they may[…]
Imprint: Gracchi Books
Published: 08/18/2022
In his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (circa 731 CE), Bede says that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex historiae (“the true law of history”). Whether explicitly or implicitly, historians narrate the past according to conceptions of what constitutes historical truth that emerge in the use of[…]
Published: 08/25/2012
See reviews of Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf: Make Magazine, thecohort@marco, Nomadics, The Medieval Review, H_NGM_N, and Glasgow Review of Books Many modern Beowulf translations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar[…]