Overview

This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved. Ezra Pound regarded translation as a superior type of literary criticism, representing a fusion of creative and critical. In this collection, translators make explicit not only what is implicit in their translations, but also critical insights that inevitably and agonizingly, cannot be accommodated in them. The translator's complex role, or predicament, as mediator between cultures is exemplified here.

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Author:   Daniel Weissbort
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9780333460566

ISBN 10:   0333460561
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   09 October 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Translating La Cepp de; K.Bosley - J nos Pilinszky's 'Desert of Love': A Note; J.Csokits - A Postscript; T.Hughes - Kafka and the Golem: Translating Paul Celan; J.Felstiner - Brief Afterthoughts on Versions of a Poem by H lderlin; M.Hamburger - Translating Martial and Virgil: Jacob Lowland among the Classics; J.S.Holmes - Translating Nerval: A Reply to a Letter by Richard Holmes; P.Jay - Translating Penna and Cernuda: Working Papers; J.Kirkup - Revising Brodsky; G.L.Kline - Translating Anna Akhmatova; S.Kunitz - Voice, Landscape, Violence, S nnevi into English in Helsinki; R.Lesser - Translating Juarroz and Noren: Working Papers; W.S.Merwin - Playing Scrabble without a Board: On Formal Translation from the Swedish; J.Moffett - 'The Voice Inside': Translating the Poetry of T.Carmi; G.Schulman - Working at Someone Else's Poem; J.Silkin - Translating Horace: Working Papers; C.H.Sisson - Finding the Proper Equivalent: Translating Voznesensky; W.J.Smith - Translating Brodsky: A Postscript; D.Weissbort - Le Pont Mirabeau; R.Wilbur & P.Auster

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