{"product_id":"beowulf","title":"Beowulf A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of The Mere Wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf — and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world — there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements never before translated into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. These familiar components of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment — of powerful men seeking to become more powerful and one woman seeking justice for her child — but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation; her Beowulf is one for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45524275822815,"sku":"9781925713886","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781925713886.jpg?v=1744080170","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/beowulf","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}