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Books by Maria Dahvana Headley
Beowulf
by Maria Dahvana Headley
· published 2020 · read 2021-11-13
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Confession: this is my first time reading Beowulf, in any translation. So of course I picked a new, modern, controversial one: what else? Maria Dahvana Headley had previously written The Mere Wife, Beowulf with Grendel's mother as protagonist, and she has some very intriguing criticism of longstanding translation traditions.