TY - JOUR
AU1 - Zhu, Chenyun
AB - ANQ: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES, NOTES AND REVIEWS 2023, VOL. 36, NO. 2, 160–163 https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1872360 Chenyun Zhu Department of English, Nanjing University, China Throughout the translation of Beowulf, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney employs occasional dialectal diction, which has aroused heated debate on the subject of cultural appropriation. While some argue that the dialect misrepresents, and, as part of the project of post-colonialism, mystifies the text, others justify the act by pinpointing the Irish elements in the original text, by placing Beowulf in the ongoing revolution of cultural contexts, or by praising the accuracy and vibrancy of Heaney’s diction in relation to his other works. In one recent essay, Daniel Donoghue reflects on this prolonged debate and puts forward the question as to “how much attention words like ‘bawn’ would attract if Heaney himself had not foregrounded them in his introduction” (80). To this day, the dialect issue remains central in the critical literature on Heaney’s translation, owing to the great disputes it has already caused rather than to its prominence in the translation. And the fundamental question remains unsettled as to whether the dialect mystifies the text and excludes certain readers. Notably, many a supporter of 
TI - The Politics of Bawn in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf
JF - ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews
DO - 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1872360
DA - 2023-04-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-politics-of-bawn-in-seamus-heaney-s-translation-of-beowulf-dofH0Et144
SP - 160
EP - 163
VL - 36
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -