Artículos relacionados a Telling Tales
Críticas
The liveliest versions of Chaucer you're likely to read - every page a virtuoso performance of language, character and story -- SIMON ARMITAGE The language is every bit as Chaucerian as Chaucer - ripe, rollicking and humorous - and Agbabi's redesigned pilgrims are as much a mixed bag as the originals * * The Times * * Inventive, innovative and ingenious - Agbabi's take on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales zooms right into the 21st Century -- JACKIE KAY Her poems draw on rap, jive and disco rhythms as much as the formal subtleties of free verse. Agbabi is a fine poet, and her linguistic wit carries satirical fire * * Daily Telegraph * * Anyone giving a poetic echo to The Canterbury Tales needs exceptional imagination, human warmth and rhythmical energy; without them, the echo is doomed to fade. But Patience Agbabi has all these things and more: a completely appropriate sense of variety, fun, seriousness and good humour. Stirred all together, they make Telling Tales a compelling collection of story-portraits, at once contemporary and time-honoured. It's a wonderful achievement -- ANDREW MOTION Patience Agbabi has brilliantly created a Canterbury Tales for a multicultural Britain, about the oversexed and the losers, the damned and the blest, in rap, sestina, text, sonnets and rhyme royal. Responsive to their models in endlessly inventive ways, they are a treat to read, and even better if you know the originals. Chaucer would have been proud of what he has inspired -- HELEN COOPER, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, University of Cambridge Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales is a brilliant, virtuosic take on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as spoken by a dazzling list of contemporary characters in a variety of contemporary idioms. Her use of received and improvised form is masterly, a great entertainment in itself, her wit and sense of poise remarkable. If Telling Tales is not one of the books of the year or in line for a major prize it will be proof the world has grown very dull indeed. This is a landmark book that extends the domain of poetry. Forget the diviison between live and page. This is live on the page -- GEORGE SZIRTES Telling Tales is a carefully constructed wonder tour. Agbabi is a genius. And this is her best work yet -- LEMN SISSAY Telling Tales is a pilgrimage of punks, badasses, broken hearts, beat poets, silver-tongued fixers, town criers, beauties, sinners. A jostle of life; loud language, noise, sudden refection, quiet, pain. A busload of voices. A poem on wheels. Inventive, risky, serious and fun -- JEANETTE WINTERSON A rising star * * Observer * * Thrilling. Has a multi-dimensional richness . . . A bold, brassy work * * Independent on Sunday on Transformatrix * * An energetic compendium of familiar stories translated into the contemporary idiom of street slang and slam poetry * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Reseña del editor
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
- EditorialCanongate Books
- Año de publicación2015
- ISBN 10 1782111573
- ISBN 13 9781782111573
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- Número de páginas144
Comprar nuevo
Ver este artículo
EUR 9,57
Gastos de envío:
EUR 2,36
A Estados Unidos de America
Los mejores resultados en AbeBooks
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate UK, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Tapa blanda
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Condición: USED_GOOD. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Nº de ref. del artículo: 00072808169
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate UK, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Tapa blanda
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Condición: USED_GOOD. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Nº de ref. del artículo: 00072641413
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I4N00
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I4N00
Cantidad disponible: 2 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I4N00
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I4N00
Cantidad disponible: 2 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_FAIR. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I5N00
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85. Nº de ref. del artículo: G1782111573I3N00
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books (edition Main), 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_GOOD. Main. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1782111573-11-1
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Telling Tales
Publicado por
Canongate Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1782111573
ISBN 13: 9781782111573
Antiguo o usado
Paperback
Librería: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Nº de ref. del artículo: S_390006411
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles