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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457162503321

Titolo

Tradition, translation, trauma [[electronic resource] ] : the classic and the modern / / edited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-180825-3

1-283-34852-7

9786613348524

0-19-161760-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkerJan

MathewsTimothy

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History

Transmission of texts - Europe - History

Translating and interpreting - History

Psychic trauma in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Prologue; Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . .; Part I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic; Part II. Modernity and its Price;  Nostalgia and the Classic; Part III. The Time of Memory, the Time of Trauma; Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once?; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic - those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, Ibn Qutayba, Cavafy and others - and show how translations engage with the affectiveimpact of texts over time and space. Poet-translator



contributors draw on their own experience here. Others offer images of tra