新普費弗圖書館是什麼?

出版日期:2012-03-01

“鬥的呈現是盡可能接近,逐字逐句,任何翻譯“坎特伯雷故事集”……”——《紐約客》傑弗裏·喬叟(c.1340 - 1400),在方言寫他的傑作,是標準的方言在英格蘭東南部的一生——一種富有活力的語言,但也非常不同於我們今天說的英語。這個有用的體積給讀者帶來了活力,活潑,和幽默的喬叟的原始中古英語詩歌,點綴的逐行教授文森特•霍珀的現代優雅,和易於理解的翻譯。這個新版本,更新一個啟發新引入的安德魯•加洛韋還包括四個新翻譯敘述。《坎特伯雷故事集》是最早的偉大敘事詩用英語寫的。是一組故事,形形色色的旅行者告訴彼此的每一天。他們已經出發步行從倫敦的“戰袍”旅店出發宗教朝聖聖地的聖托馬斯貝克特在英格蘭坎特伯雷大教堂的小鎮。這本書開篇喬叟的著名的開場白,然後禮物最好的那些許多故事,展示喬叟的技能在描繪各種截然不同的個性。例如,我們滿足宗教虔誠但傲慢女修道院,滑稽的下流的米勒,和親切地泥土浴的妻子和其他很多。通過這一切,我們對待喬叟的自己的聲音,這是世俗的智慧,常常諷刺,有時自嘲,總是好脾氣。在一個新更新版是一種吸引力,平易近人英國文學教材的學生。 It's also a richly entertaining volume for the enlightened general reader This new edition gives today's readers an awareness as never before that The Canterbury Tales is one of the great masterpieces of world literature. Continues to offer the benefits of the previous critically acclaimed edition by presenting the original Middle English of Chaucer's poetry with an elegant, direct, line-by-line and often word-by-word translation. This format gives students and general readers immediate appreciation of Chaucer's last and greatest narrative poem. Features a new set of up-to-date notes and resources for further study. Four additional key narratives newly translated from Chaucer's original text respond to the modern reader's willingness to explore The Canterbury Tales' brilliantly experimental approach to storytelling. Includes a stimulating new introduction that encourages modern readers to embrace various difficult-to-understand Chaucerian turns of phrase so that they can fully appreciate the fine artistry of Chaucer's poetic style.