The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)

ISBN 10: 0859896900 / ISBN 13: 9780859896900

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2001

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Owl and the Nightingale: Text and Translation (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859896900
• ISBN 13: 9780859896900
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been described by literary critics as a "most miraculous piece of writing", "a marvel of literary art" and "a truly amazing phenomenon". There is no other edition currently in print and this is the first new English edition of the poem since 1960.The book contains a lively parallel-text translation in modern English, as well as a glossary, notes and Introduction. The edition has involved a complete reconsideration of the poem's complex textual history, its linguistic provenance and the practices of its scribes, as well as its possible sources.

About the Author

Neil Cartlidge is a Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham