Wood Beyond the World
Autor William Morrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783842427235
ISBN-10: 3842427239
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS
ISBN-10: 3842427239
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS
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Recenzii
A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism.
This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.
“Robert Boenig's meticulously edited, beautifully annotated edition of William Morris’s late prose romance, The Wood Beyond the World, will satisfy any teacher or reader wanting to learn more about Morris’s preoccupations at the end of his life. Boenig’s introduction alone makes the edition necessary reading. The supplementary materials, ranging from Morris’s work on a translation of Beowulf to his essay on ‘The Socialist Ideal: Art,’ and works by contemporaries such as Marx, Ruskin, and Mallock, expand richly the ways in which this edition may be used.” — Barry Qualls, Rutgers University
“The first new scholarly edition in thirty years, and an admirable achievement.” — Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.
“Robert Boenig's meticulously edited, beautifully annotated edition of William Morris’s late prose romance, The Wood Beyond the World, will satisfy any teacher or reader wanting to learn more about Morris’s preoccupations at the end of his life. Boenig’s introduction alone makes the edition necessary reading. The supplementary materials, ranging from Morris’s work on a translation of Beowulf to his essay on ‘The Socialist Ideal: Art,’ and works by contemporaries such as Marx, Ruskin, and Mallock, expand richly the ways in which this edition may be used.” — Barry Qualls, Rutgers University
“The first new scholarly edition in thirty years, and an admirable achievement.” — Robert Clark, University of East Anglia
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A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism.
This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.
A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism.
This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Morris: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Wood Beyond the World
Appendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative
Introduction
William Morris: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Wood Beyond the World
Appendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative
- From Morris’s and A.J.Wyatt’s Translation of Beowulf (1895)
- From Morris’s and Eírikr Magnússon’s Translation of The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870)
- From Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (1471)
- “The Socialist Ideal: Art” (1891)
- “How I Became a Socialist” (1894)
- From Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867)
- From John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
- From Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti” (1871)
- William Hurrell Mallock, “How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem” (1872)
- From May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris (1913)
Notă biografică
William Morris (1834-1896) is canonical along three separate and unusually well-documented lines: as a founding figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement whose textile and wallpaper designs are still in commercial production today; as a committed revolutionary socialist who helped found the Socialist League and wrote and lectured extensively on his politics; and, less widely known outside genre history, as one of the founders of modern fantasy fiction, whose invented secondary worlds directly influenced later writers including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Few authors connect a decorative-arts collection, a political-history collection, and a fantasy shelf as legitimately as Morris does. News from Nowhere (1890) is Morris's utopian socialist novel, a vision of a future England transformed into a decentralized, craft-based, moneyless society, written partly as a direct rebuttal to the mechanized, centralized utopia of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. The Wood Beyond the World, from the same decade, is a very different book: an early prose fantasy romance set in an invented medieval-flavored world, built on the model of chivalric quest narratives, that is now recognized as a direct ancestor of the modern fantasy novel. Pairing them in one collection shows the range of a single imagination rather than forcing a choice between Morris the political theorist and Morris the myth-maker. The two books reward different readers for different reasons: News from Nowhere for anyone curious what a serious nineteenth-century radical actually thought a good society would look like, in concrete and sometimes strange detail, and The Wood Beyond the World for readers of Tolkien or Lewis who want to see fantasy's roots before the genre had a name or a marketing category. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, no word-division - makes both founding texts legible to low-vision and aging readers who are otherwise shut out of small-type Victorian editions.