The poetry of translation: from Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue
Scope of translation -- Translating within and between languages -- Translation and paraphrase -- Translating the language of literature -- Words for translation -- Metaphors for translation -- Roots of translatorly metaphors -- Are translations interpretations? Gadamer, Lowell, and some contemporar...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2014
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Reynolds, Matthew, The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue] (2014) (Lazaroiu, George)
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| Edition: | First published in paperback |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Literature
/ Translation
/ History
/ Concept of
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| Further subjects: | B
Poetry ; Translating
B Literature B Poetry History and criticism B Poetry B Poetry Translating B Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Summary: | Scope of translation -- Translating within and between languages -- Translation and paraphrase -- Translating the language of literature -- Words for translation -- Metaphors for translation -- Roots of translatorly metaphors -- Are translations interpretations? Gadamer, Lowell, and some contemporary poem-translations -- Interpretation and "opening" : Dryden, Chapman, and early translations from the Bible -- "Paraphrase" from Erasmus to "Venus T -- d" -- Dryden, Behn, and what is "secretly in the poet" -- Dryden's Aeneis : "a thousand secret beauties" -- Dryden's Dido : "somewhat I find within" -- Translating an author : Denham, Katherine Philips, Dryden, Cowper -- Author as intimate : Roscommon, Philips, Pope, Thomas Francklin, Lucretius, Dryden, FitzGerald, Jean Starr Untermeyer -- Erotic translation : Theocritus, Dryden, Ovid, Richard Duke, Tasso, Fairfax, Petrarch, Charlotte Smith, Sappho, Swinburne -- Love again : Sappho, Addison, Ambrose Philips, Dryden, Petrarch, Chaucer, Wyatt, Tasso, Fairfax, Ariosto, Harington, Byron -- Byron's adulterous fidelity -- Pope's Iliad the "hurry of passion" -- Pope's Iliad : a "comprehensive view" -- Some perspectives after Pope : Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Pound, Michael Longley -- Epic zoom : Christopher Logue's Homer (with Anne Carson's Stesichoros and Seamus Heaney's Beowulf -- Ezra Pound : 'my job was to bring a dead man to life -- FitzGerald's Rubaiyat : "a thing must live" -- Metamporhoses of Arthur Golding (which lead to some conclusions) |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2011 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0199687935 |