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Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations.
Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Major's illuminating and original insig ...more
Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Major's illuminating and original insig ...more
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Hardcover, 312 pages
Published
January 23rd 2018
by University of Toronto Press
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I first heard of this book when a friend mentioned it in conjunction with her job as an editorial assistant at a scholarly journal. Thus, it was already on my mind when I went to the big medieval studies conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan, so I bought it when I visited the Toronto stand. I’ve gotten more and more interested in the image/story of the Tower of Babel recently, due to a fantastic lecture I attended about Babel as a hyperobject. So, I was entirely thrilled that an extended study was d
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This book provides readers with an excellent overview of how the Tower of Babel story from Genesis 11 was retold and interpreted by Anglo-Saxon authors of the 7th-11th centuries, who were writing in Latin and/or Old English. But beyond all that, the author also introduces readers to some of the major authors of Anglo-Saxon literature along the way, including a few that I had never heard of before! For anyone interested in learning more about Anglo-Saxon literature in general, and how biblical st
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