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The classics in modernist translation /
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight 'translation, ' a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2019.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD THE CLASSICS, MODERNISM AND TRANSLATION: A CONFLICTED HISTORY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Rationale; Modernist translations; Structure of the volume; CHAPTER 1 'SEEKING ... BURIED BEAUTY': THE POETS 'TRANSLATION SERIES; Selection of translators; The translations; Source texts; Form and content; Reviewers' reactions; Conclusion; PART I EZRA POUND ON TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 2 OUT OF HOMER: GREEK IN POUND'S CANTOS
- CHAPTER 3 TRANSLATING THE ODYSSEY: ANDREAS DIVUS, OLD ENGLISH AND EZRA POUND'S CANTO ICHAPTER 4 TO TRANSLATE OR NOT TO TRANSLATE? POUND'S PROSODIC PROVOCATIONS IN HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY; RESPONDENT ESSAY 1 RINGING TRUE: POUNDIAN TRANSLATION AND POETIC MUSIC; PART II H.D.'S TRANSLATIONS OF EURIPIDES: GENRE, FORM, LEXICON; CHAPTER 5 TRANSLATION AS MYTHOPOESIS: H.D.'S HELEN IN EGYPT AS META-PALINODE; CHAPTER 6 REPRESSION, RENEWAL AND 'THE RACE OF WOMEN' IN H.D.'S ION; Speech and repression; H.D.'s feminist cultural critique; CHAPTER 7 BRAVING THE ELEMENTS: H.D. AND JEFFERS
- Voice as strategic resistanceStrangenesses: acts of cognition as revelation; Beyond tragedy's tower: Jeffers' panoramic auditorium; Soundness, a salutary attitude of the depths; Chorus as inner mood curtain: they wore veils over their eyes; Writing from no place; Exodos; CHAPTER 8 REINVENTING EROS: H.D.'S TRANSLATION OF EURIPIDES' HIPPOLYTUS; Defying eros 'in vain'; 'Kupris/creator of all life'; 'how Kupris strikes' / ... 'she incites all to evil'; Conclusion: 'that most passionate of passions, the innate chastity of the young'; RESPONDENT ESSAY 2 H.D. AND EURIPIDES: GHOSTLY SUMMONING
- PART III MODERNIST TRANSLATION AND POLITICAL ATTUNEMENTSCHAPTER 9 'UNTRANSLATABLE' WOMEN: LAURA RIDING'S CLASSICAL MODERNIST FICTION; CHAPTER 10 LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION: THE GENESIS OF MODERNISM'S SIREN SONGS; Eliot and the genesis of classical modernism; Joyce's 'Sirens' and the nightmare of history; Conclusion; CHAPTER 11 'TRYING TO READ ARISTOPHANE': SWEENEY AGONISTES, RECEPTION AND RITUAL; 'A man of high seriousness'; Musical drama; A ritual plot; A new (old) form; The classics and the shock of the old
- CHAPTER 12 'STRAIGHT TALK, STRAIGHT AS THE GREEK!': IRELAND'S OEDIPUS AND THE MODERNISM OF W.B. YEATSRESPONDENT ESSAY 3 MODERNIST TRANSLATIONS AND POLITICAL ATTUNEMENTS; CHAPTER 13 MODERNIST MIGRATIONS, PEDAGOGICAL ARENAS: TRANSLATING MODERNIST RECEPTION IN THE CLASSROOM AND GALLERY; 'Facing three ways': H.D.'s Hermes and modernist migrations; Musings in the museum; Classical Convergences : myth, poetry and art in conversation; Sample convergence: Aphrodite; Migrations, translations, departures; AFTERWORD: MODERNISM GOING FORWARD; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX