Onze boeken

Men in Aïda

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#291139
Titel	Men in Aïda
Auteur	Melnick, David J.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	The Hague/Tirana/Montreal
Jaar van uitgave	n.d.
ISBN10	9491914049
ISBN13	9789491914041
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	With an introduction by Sean Gurd.
Samenvatting	David J. Melnick published the first book of Men in Aida, a homophonic, but also homoeroticized translation of Homer s epic Iliad, in December 1983 in an edition of 450 at Tuumba Press. After appearing in many guises and fragments, Book Two was published online in 2002 as part of the Eclipse Archive. Book Three appears for the first time in the present publication, which brings together all three books of one of the most important American avant-garde poems. According to Sean Gurd, who wrote the introduction to this unified edition: The labor of more than 20 years, Men in Aida filters the sound of Homer s Iliad through the words and phraseology of English. Far more than an exercise in homophonic translation, David J. Melnick s epoch-marking poem packs thousands of years of linguistic histo... (Lees verder)ry into three riotous books. "
Pagina's	201
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

Onze gebruikte boeken verkeren in goede tweedehands staat, tenzij hierboven anders beschreven. Kleine onvolkomenheden zijn niet altijd vermeld.