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Tradition, translation, trauma : the classic and the modern /

Tradition, Trauma, Translation is concerned with how Classic texts - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. A distinguished international team of contributors and responders examine the topic in different ways. So...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parker, Jan, Mathews, Timothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Colección:Classical presences.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue / Susan Bassnett
  • Introduction: Images of tradition, translation, trauma ... / Jan Parker
  • pt. I. Handing on, making anew, refusing the classic: Proemion : translating a paean of praise / Frederick Ahl
  • 1. Fuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English / Lorna Hardwick
  • 2. Pope's Trojan geography / David Hopkins
  • 3. Sophoclean journeys / Pat Easterling
  • 4. Cicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception / Matthew Fox
  • 5. Eating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition / Richard Armstrong
  • 6. After Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century / Rachel Bowlby
  • pt. II. Modernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic: 7. The price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals / Christopher Prendergast
  • 8. Composite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity / Jonathan Monroe
  • 9. Time, free verse, and the gods of modernism / Ian Patterson
  • 10. Lost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other / Wen-chin Ouyang
  • pt. III. The time of memory, the time of trauma: 11. No consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory / Gail Holst-Warhaft
  • 12. The abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra / Jane Montgomery Griffiths
  • 13. What's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her? / Jan Parker
  • 14. Modernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity / George Rousseau
  • 15. Mediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs? / Piotr Kuhiwczak
  • 16. History as traumatic memory: Das Áfricas / Helena Buescu
  • 17. Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti / Timothy Mathews
  • anyone look in both directions at once? / Timothy Mathews
  • Epilogue / Derek Attridge.